Crossword-Solution: OFFENSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Offensive | a. | Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. |
| Offensive | a. | Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. |
| Offensive | a. | Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons. |
| Offensive | n. | The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive. |
We have 139 clues for the answer “OFFENSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like some football tackles | 1 answer |
| insulting abusive | 1 answer |
| violating or tending to violate or offend against | 1 answer |
| Like some fouls | 2 answers |
| Quarterback protectors | 2 answers |
| The quality of being insulting and abusive | 2 answers |
| disputatious | 10 answers |
| In bad taste. | 11 answers |
| Martial | 12 answers |
| icky | 14 answers |
| niffy | 17 answers |
| Onslaught | 18 answers |
| Like some humor | 19 answers |
| Raspy | 21 answers |
| past bearing | 22 answers |
| Screeching. | 23 answers |
| Foul-smelling | 23 answers |
| unmelodious | 24 answers |
| exasperating | 25 answers |
| reeking | 25 answers |
| galling | 26 answers |
| minatory | 26 answers |
| Stinking | 26 answers |
| Funky | 26 answers |
| Noisome | 27 answers |
| Stinker | 28 answers |
| Odorous | 29 answers |
| maddening | 30 answers |
| grinding | 31 answers |
| smelly | 31 answers |
| rancid | 32 answers |
| Onset | 32 answers |
| Indecorous | 32 answers |
| Leaden | 34 answers |
| Noxious | 34 answers |
| Rasping | 35 answers |
| incriminating | 37 answers |
| prejudicial | 38 answers |
| Aggression | 38 answers |
| damning | 39 answers |
| Deathly | 39 answers |
| Yucky | 39 answers |
| Brusque | 40 answers |
| Creepy | 40 answers |
| Malodorous | 40 answers |
| malformed | 41 answers |
| Ungracious | 42 answers |
| Hoarse | 43 answers |
| Irritating | 43 answers |
| Jarring | 43 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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Sentences with OFFENSIVE (5)
Thus it was offensive to him even now to board a ship in the same dress in which he grappled her, and he still adhered in his walk to the school’s distinguished slouch.
With these in troop Came _Astoreth_, whom the _Phoenicians_ call’d _Astarte_, Queen of Heav’n, with crescent Horns; To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon _Sidonian_ Virgins paid their Vows and Songs, In _Sion_ also not unsung, where stood Her Temple on th’ offensive Mountain, built By that uxorious King, whose heart though large, Beguil’d by fair Idolatresses, fell To Idols foul.
There was a bright air and manner about her now, by which she seemed to imply that the desirability of her existence could not be questioned; and this rather saucy assumption failed in being offensive, because a beholder felt it to be, upon the whole, true.
The only offensive operation men ventured upon after that night was the preparation of mines and pitfalls, and even in that their energies were frantic and spasmodic.
The farthest I can go in that direction is to call them by names of limited reverence—names merely descriptive, never unkind, never offensive, never tainted by harsh feeling.
Quotes with OFFENSIVE (3)
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Fortunately, among werewolf women, the word "bitch" is not offensive. I was having a lot of fun with that." Hey there, bitches!" I called as I came through the door. "What are my favorite bitches up to today?
Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own train of thought and purpose in life. You have to die to an extent in your hunger for faith, for wisdom, and quite frankly, most people aren't ready to die.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2005–2018).