He is chary of offending people.
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Offending
//əˈfɛndɪŋ//
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They kept silent for fear of offending her.
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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.
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I am afraid of offending you.
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