offend

Example Sentences

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He doesn’t mean to offend, though other people’s feelings are a luxury he has never been able to afford.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

It’s not that Shriver is trying to offend people or be contrarian.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

She’s over wasting time plucking chin hairs, searching for brain fog-induced lost reading glasses and — most of all — withholding her opinions so as not to offend others.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

That arrogance doesn’t just offend the lower courts’ egos—it undercuts the work they see as their duty, especially the careful establishment of facts.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2025

They did as they were told, partly because they didn’t want to offend any guard or even attract his attention and partly because the crowd made them.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg