Dictionary entry

Offensiveness

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Definition

offensive /ǝ'fensÇv/ adj ၁။ (က) စိတ္အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ ျဖစ္ေစေသာ။ ေစာ္ကားေသာ။ offensive remarks/language/behaviour ❍ I find your attitude most offensive. Compare INOFFENSIVE (ခ) စက္ဆုပ္ဖြယ္ရာ။ ရြံစရာ။ မသတီစရာ။ an offensive smell ❍ She finds tobacco smoke offensive. ၂။ ( fml ) ထိုးစစ္။ တိုက္စစ္။ offensive weapons/operations. Compare DEFENSIVE n ထိုးစစ္ဆင္မႈ။ တိုက္စစ္။ launch a major offensive ❍ an air offensive. ❏ be on the offensive [ IDM ] တိုက္စစ္ဆင္သည္။ Liverpool were on the offensive for most of the first half. ❏ go on (to)/ take the offensive [ IDM ] လက္ဦးမႈ ရယူ သည္။ In meetings she always takes the offensive before she can be criticized. ❏ offensively adv ၾကားျပင္းကတ္စရာ။ မ်က္စိေနာက္စရာ။ ရမ္းရမ္းကားကား။ offensively loud music ❍ play offensively. offensiveness n [U]

Examples

  1. Books containing offensive language
  2. Offensive odours
  3. There were complaints that the advertisement was offensive to women.
  4. Offensive weapons
  5. Offensive players