Offending

//əˈfɛndɪŋ//

"Offending" in a Sentence (13 examples)

He is chary of offending people.

They kept silent for fear of offending her.

In 1980 the Ontario Censor Board banned the film "The Tin Drum," adapted from the Günter Grass novel, but the media found this silly, and so the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) showed the offending scene that night from coast to coast on the national news.

I am afraid of offending you.

It is virtually impossible to discuss the Thai Royal Family in English without offending native Thais: the special honorific forms of reference that exist in Thai simply have no counterparts in English.

Does he appoint him with a clear intention of offending him?

Offending you wasn't my intention.

Sami was offending Layla.

While no saint himself, it seems his crime was offending a criminal with whom he had no relationship.

I'm afraid of offending you.

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There are, besides, other corporations and individuals more or less connected in the activities of the other defendants, that are alleged to be instruments or accomplices in their activities and offendings[…]

Something in the fridge smelled terrible. The offending article was soon identified and removed.

According to Netsafe, scammers send out a bunch of emails, hoping to snag a few gullible people, but simply deleting the offending email won’t do anything to impede the con.

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