offend
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"British Airways, Lufthansa, and everybody else's high fares, I'll happily offend them on a regular basis," he had added.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
But more than that, ‘Are we doing things that could actually offend them?’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I don’t care if the officers caught on tape didn’t intend to offend, and I don’t care what Hochman intends the message to be with his vast over-charging of Flores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Some gyms and saunas still maintain "no tattoo zones" on the grounds that certain tattoos "are too intimidating and may offend other guests".
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Be respectful and try your best not to offend anyone in your posts.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
For many people, a lawn with leaves unblown or unraked offends their sensibilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
But discomfort lives in the shadows: in the quiet space between conscience and control, between what offends and what erases.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2025
"Crass content can be criticised if it offends you. However, you cannot have the state persecute and lock up people for offending your 'moral sentiments'," he wrote in a post on X.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
At the very least, that's not something that offends people.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
He sniffs, as though the very smell of me offends him.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
You replay conversations worried you offended someone, embarrassed yourself, or both.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Worry less about who’s talking to whom and who has offended whom, and more about the parents’ independence.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
It’s not that I’m offended by the idea of generated art; it’s just that it bores me.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Consider its waiver, then, not just a warning but an attempt to weed out those who may be offended or triggered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
But I couldn’t be one, nor was I to call anyone a jíbaro, lest they be offended.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
"We will take a zero-tolerance approach to hate crime and other offending," said senior Met officer Carl Galvin.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
“We contacted the offending students’ families and instituted consequences, and are working to educate the students about the impact of their actions,” Holdren said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
He added that it was helping police understand the geographical impact of the offending and helping forces target areas where evidence was coming from.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Lucy said she had had no idea of her ex-husband's offending until police knocked on their door with a search warrant to seize his devices and arrested him.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Were you more aware, you would know or realize by now that the offending trousers were dispatched to you with our full knowledge that they were inadequate so far as length was concerned.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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