be offensive
Example Sentences
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Yet the BBC did catch and remove a remark by “My Father’s Shadow” director Akinola Davies Jr. that it found to be offensive.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
"Do you understand how both your language and behaviour could be offensive to Sam, your housemates and the viewing public?"
From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025
He said that if he and his team had felt the campaign would be offensive in that way, “we never would’ve done it.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
Spectrum WT sued, arguing that drag wasn’t designed to be offensive and portraying it as a celebration of many things, including “queerness, gender, acceptance, love and especially femininity.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024
In the third place, culture will be favoured by all those people who know their own character to be offensive or tiresome, and wish to draw a veil of so-called “good form” over them.
From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
