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Look up offensive in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Offensive may refer to: Offensive (military), type of military operation Offensive, the former name...

Guatemalan Latin Pop singer Ricardo Arjona's 2006 song Mojado uses the word inoffensively, as he describes a migrant seeking a better life in another country...

where English took it from. The term can be construed as offensive, inoffensive, or completely neutral, largely depending on the region or country where...

trumpeting "polite" entertainment, a commitment to entertainment equally inoffensive to men, women and children. Acts that violated this ethos (e.g., those...

unpleasant. Some euphemisms are intended to amuse, while others use bland, inoffensive terms for concepts that the user wishes to downplay. Euphemisms may be...

Safford Vela May 12, 2001 (2001-05-12) While making an at first sight inoffensive exchange, Val is left on a yacht with a bomb, caught by her stiletto...

Indian subcontinent or of Indian descent" and an at least originally inoffensive, old-fashioned meaning, for example "dated an unskilled native labourer...

by saying, "Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect. What can you do?" to which Marge replies...

strangely united in the last of their successors", "The life of this inoffensive youth was spared by the generous clemency of Odoacer; who dismissed him...

as large, dirty pests, although the majority of species are small and inoffensive and live in a wide range of habitats around the world. Cockroaches are...

2018, pp. 11, 279n13. Kapur 2018, p. 11. Kowalski, Frank (2014). An Inoffensive Rearmament: The Making of the Postwar Japanese Army. Naval Institute...

he won many friends in the House because of his fair leadership and inoffensive personality. For the past decade, Ford had been unsuccessfully working...

[however], we must not forget that these idyllic village communities, inoffensive though they may appear, had always been the solid foundation of Oriental...

worse", from peior "worse". In historical linguistics, the process of an inoffensive word becoming pejorative is a form of semantic drift known as pejoration...

"when as debtors and delinquents may walk abroad without a keeper, but inoffensive books must not stir forth without a visible jailer in their title." Although...

was originally used by classical scholars as "a bookish, and therefore inoffensive term for writing about prostitutes", but its meaning was quickly expanded...

suggest a contract to Mallory for a signature. Mallory could find both an inoffensively-modified version of this fair contract that has the same signature as...

Notwithstanding their celebrity in war, the people were generally very quiet and inoffensive. The Romans, however, easily found a pretext for charging them with complicity...

his company, the Société Française de Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux (French Company of Inoffensive Hair Dyes), the future L'Oréal. In his production...

the yakṣas have a dual personality. On the one hand, a yakṣa may be an inoffensive nature-fairy, associated with woods and mountains; but there is also...