Some slurs like “slut” and “retard” vary in their perceived offensiveness to those polled, but also include some incredibly offensive words like the “N-word.”
Source: wiktionary
Offensiveness
Synonyms for "offensiveness" (45 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (22)
Adjective(1 words)
Noun(6 words)
Related word relations
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More general
5 entriesMore specific
7 entriescultural offensivenessmoral offensivenesspolitical offensivenessracial offensivenessregional offensivenessreligious offensivenesssexual offensiveness
Collocations
6 entriescultural offensivenessextreme offensivenesslevels of offensivenessoffensiveness scaleoffensiveness thresholdperceived offensiveness
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesSample sentences
1 total sentences available.