| 单词 | offend |
| 释义 | of·fend intransitive verb 1. obsolete 2. a. < if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive — Shakespeare > b. < that only those … who will never again offend against the law should be paroled — Fred Finsley > 3. a. < took off his shoe and removed the offending pebble > b. < take care that your dog does not … offend on the common staircase — Agnes M. Miall > < a fabric of brick and asbestos that would not offend in that landscape — Bryan Morgan > transitive verb 1. a. < a contract not offending a statute … might still be in restraint of trade — C.A.Cooke > < at the risk of offending the canons of reviewing — J.N.L.Baker > b. obsolete c. < tasteless billboards that offend the eye > < the horse … develops … bony growths around the joints that have been offended — R.R.Dykstra > 2. obsolete < if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out — Mt 5:29 (Authorized Version) > 3. < some people might be offended at mentioning a novelist in church — Compton Mackenzie > < friend of my youth may remember something in a different shape and be offended with my book — W.B.Yeats > Synonyms: < begged pardon for having displeased her. In a softened tone she declared herself not at all offended — Jane Austen > < hurt and offended by Ivy's rudeness — Willa Cather > < an old man asks her to become his mistress: she is not much offended morally, nor is she horrified — E.K.Brown > affront indicates treating with incivility, lack of consideration, rudeness, or contempt, either with willful intent or deliberate indifference to courtesy < a vigor, resolution, and at times an arrogance, which affronted his contemporaries — New Republic > < further affronted every soldier by saying that as things stood, England's only defense was the navy — Anthony West > insult indicates a deliberate, insolent, wanton causing of another's shame, hurt pride, or humiliation < he would insult them flagrantly; he would fling his hands in the air and thunder at their ignorance — Louis Auchincloss > outrage applies to flagrant, egregious offense calling forth extreme feelings < outraged at the aspersions upon the character of his old friend — S.H.Adams > < deputies, outraged because they thought Mendès was appealing over their heads to the people, broke into an angry roar — Time > |
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