be offensive
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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
“Secretary Becerra never knew this word to be offensive and certainly he meant no disrespect to anyone,” said a campaign spokesperson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 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
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
As a kind of dessert they drew on their small supply of congealed seal-oil, so rancid as to be offensive.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
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