offensiveness

insolence; haughtiness; arrogance, airs; overbearance; domineering; tyranny., impertinence; sauciness; flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster; swagger, swaggering; bounce; terrorism., assumption, presumption; beggar on horseback; usurpation., impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass; shamelessness; effrontery, hardened front, face of brass., assumption of infallibility., saucebox (blusterer).

be insolent; bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear (affirm); rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell., domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas, regarder de haut en bas; exact; snub, huff, beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over., out face, outlook, outstare, outbrazen, outbrave; stare out of countenance; brazen out; lay down the law; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; assume a lofty bearing; talk big, look big; put on big looks, act the grand seigneur; mount the high horse, ride the high horse; toss the head, carry, with a high hand., tempt Providence, want snuffing.

insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary; high-handed, high and mighty; contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown., flippant, pert, fresh [U.S.], cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert., precocious, assumiing, would-be, bumptious., bluff; brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed; boldfaced, barefaced, brazen-faced; dead to shame, lost to shame., impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, "full of sound and fury " [Macbeth].

with a high hand; ex cathedra.

ugliness; deformity, inelegance; acomia; disfigurement (blemish); want of symmetry, inconcinnity; distortion; squalor (uncleanness)., forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, "spretae injuria formae" [Vergil]., eyesore, object, figure, sight, fright, octopus, specter, scarecrow, hag, harridan, satyr, witch, toad, baboon, monster, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum" [Vergil].

be ugly; look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces., render ugly; deface; disfigure, defigure; distort; blemish (injure); soil (render unclean).

ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely ; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen; unbeauteous, unbeautiful; beautiless; shapeless (amorphous)., misshapen, misproportioned; monstrous; gaunt (thin); dumpy (short); curtailed of its fair proportions; ill made, ill shaped, ill proportioned; crooked (distorted); hard featured, hard visaged; ill favored, hard favored, evil favored; ill looking; unprepossessing., graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy., squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome., frightful, hideous, odious, uncanny, forbidding; repellant, repulsive; horrid, horrible; shocking (painful)., foul (dirty); dingy (colorless); gaudy (color); disfigured; discolored.