offense
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- n a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others
- n a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- n (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act
- n the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- n the action of attacking an enemy
- Obama, in his remarks to the group earlier: Goes on the offense taking toughest jabs at Clinton, referencing her weekend campaign stop at an Indiana bar and demoted strategist Penn.
- Jacoby's offense was no offense or an error so nugatory as to demand no more than a one-sentence explanation.
- They would have to be found guilty of the first offense under the new law initially and serve the mandatory 25 years.