Crossword-Solution: OFFENDS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OFFENDS | anagram | SENDOFF |
We have 11 clues for the answer “OFFENDS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hurts with an insult | 1 answer |
| Is an affront to | 1 answer |
| Is not PC, say | 1 answer |
| Wounds, in a way | 1 answer |
| Outrages | 3 answers |
| Wounds | 6 answers |
| Goes against | 10 answers |
| HURTS | 11 answers |
| Insults | 12 answers |
| Irritates | 31 answers |
| Bugs | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OFFENDS (5)
The da ma ov koars kum when the publik ma be expektd to get rekonsyled to the bezair asspekt of the Simplified Kombynashuns, but—if I may be allowed the expression—is it worth the wasted time? (Figure 8) To see our letters put together in ways to which we are not accustomed offends the eye, and also takes the _expression _out of the words.
Sometimes a man offends the Deity with a crime, and is punished for it thirty years later; meantime he has committed a million other crimes: no matter, Henry can pick out the one that brought the worms.
Having in vain attempted to raise his hand to his eyes, he said to Wamba, who, seeing his master’s ill humour had prudently retreated to the rear, “I pray thee, do me the kindness to wipe my eyes with the skirt of thy mantle; the dust offends me, and these bonds will not let me help myself one way or another.” Wamba did him the service he required, and they rode side by side for some time, during which Gurth maintained a moody silence.
His English never offends me, and he has read Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_, all five volumes, and that's something.
Alike with him who does wrong to a suppliant or a guest, or who goes up to his brother’s bed and commits unnatural sin in lying with his wife, or who infatuately offends against fatherless children, or who abuses his old father at the cheerless threshold of old age and attacks him with harsh words, truly Zeus himself is angry, and at the last lays on him a heavy requittal for his evil doing.
Quotes with OFFENDS (3)
... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.
I think there's a difference between (a) offending people for its own sake, which I don't necessarily want to do, because some people are good and decent and it would be unkind to upset them simply to indulge my own self-importance, and (b) challenging their prejudices, their preconceptions, or their comfortable assumptions. I'm very happy to do that. But we need to be on our guard when people say they're offended. No one actually has the right to go through life without bein…
The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1971–2023).