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• n  the action of attacking an enemy
• n  the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
• n  a feeling of anger caused by being offended
  he took offence at my question
• n  a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others
• n  (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act

• Sex workers are not allowed to hire bodyguards, because the guards would be considered to be living off the earnings of prostitution, and that is also an offence.
• It was a classic Johnsonian gaffe, and he subsequently apologized for any offence to Papua New Guinea.
• Describing the budget-priced dinner as "a little bit offence mending and a little bit of entertainment," the Republican Governor welcomed 200 legislators with a confident smile.

• offense
• offensive
• umbrage
• discourtesy
• offensive activity
• crime
• criminal offense
• criminal offence
• law-breaking

• defense
• defence

News & Articles

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• Dominique Blake gets six year ban for doping
  By Kayon Raynor KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaican 400 meter runner Dominique Blake was banned for six years on Thursday for a second doping offence. The Jamaica Anti Doping Disciplinary Panel issued the penalty after Blake tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexanamine at last year's Olympic trials. It was her doping offence after she served a nine month suspension for testing positive to ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports
• Athletics-Dominique Blake gets six year ban for doping
  By Kayon Raynor KINGSTON, June 13 (Reuters) - Jamaican 400 metre runner Dominique Blake was banned for six years on Thursday for a second doping offence. The Jamaica Anti Doping Disciplinary Panel issued the penalty after Blake tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexanamine at last year's Olympic trials. It was her doping offence after she served a nine month suspension for testing ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports
• Russia’s new anti-gay law: more cynicism than bigotry
  Amidst worldwide condemnation, Russia’s parliament passed a law outlawing “homosexual propaganda.” It was definitely a shameful milestone. As of today , The law will make it an offence…to communicate to Russian children and young people that love between two women or two men is “just as socially valuable” as that between a ...
  June 13, 2013 - Foreign Policy Blogs

Quotes

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• Damian Green in BBC News
  Asked about the warning of life imprisonment on Newsnight, Mr Green said: "I assume it's because it's a common law offence therefore because there is...... no law on the statute book which I was alleged to have broken, then presumably there is no...
• Roger Goodell in Fox Sports
  Bill Walsh was a mentor to me and many others,said Goodell. "He revolutionised the game with his 'West Coast Offence' and will always be remembered as one of the most influential people in NFL history."
• Plaxico Burress in 940 News
  We just hung in there on offence, kept executing,said Burress, who wasn't far off on the 23-17 prediction he made a few days ago. "It came down to one play and we made it."