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- r in an unpleasantly offensive manner
he smelled offensively unwashed - r in an obnoxious manner
he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences - r in an aggressive manner
`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said
the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean
- No, it's just a wand glitch: one guitar string, offensively flat, needs to be tightened.
- Western diplomats say that so far, the ayatullahs appear to be acting defensively rather than offensively.
- Cingular created pretentious and unamusing ads that gave us little idea what the company does, except that it's "wireless," and most offensively (though in an all-too-common way .