Offensively
[ə'fɛnsɪvli]
Definition
(adv.) in an aggressive manner; '`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said'; 'the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean'.
(adv.) in an obnoxious manner; 'he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences'.
(adv.) in an unpleasantly offensive manner; 'he smelled offensively unwashed'.
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Examples
- I wasn't ready in myself,' he mimicked her phrase offensively. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I hate to be poor, and we are degradingly poor, offensively poor, miserably poor, beastly poor. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Canby has been ordered to act offensively from the sea-coast to the interior, towards Montgomery and Selma. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I must decline to answer questions,' said the Secretary, 'that are so offensively asked. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Christian missions became offensively busy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They crowd you --infest you--swarm about you, and sweat and smell offensively, and look sneaking and mean, and obsequious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The full-built woman was staring offensively. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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