Sentences with offend
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O o - He apologizes for his comments and says he had no intention of offending the community. [VERB noun]
- This bill offends against good sense and against justice. [VERB + against]
- British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims, who regard pigs as impure animals.
- The city museum of The Hague has decided not to include in an exhibition a work of art that may offend Muslims, it was reported on Monday.
- In Western countries girls are far less likely to offend than boys. [VERB]
- The smell offended him
- On Thursday, the Vatican said the pope had not intended to offend Muslim sensibilities with the remarks.
- On that occasion, the cartoons' publication was an act calculated specifically to offend Muslim sensibilities.
- Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
- A remark so thoughtless it can only offend.
- Offend implies a causing displeasure or resentment in another, intentionally or unintentionally, by wounding his or her feelings or by a breach of his or her sense of propriety [she will be offended if she is not invited]; affront implies open and deliberate disrespect or offense [to affront someone's modesty]; insult implies an affront so insolent or contemptuously rude as to cause deep humiliation and resentment [to insult someone by calling him a liar]; outrage implies an extreme offense against someone's sense of right, justice, propriety, etc. [he was outraged by the offer of a bribe]