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
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
The Booker-winning novelist has previously expressed his opposition to "sensitivity readers", the practice of hiring someone to read a manuscript before its publication in order to point out things that might be offensive to readers.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 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
They did not know what was in Checco's mind, and they had no wish to say anything that might be offensive to him.
From The Making of a Saint by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
