Definition of offensive

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Offensive (n.) The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive.

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Drug :: Drug (v. t.) To tincture with something offensive or injurious.
Antibromic :: Antibromic (n.) An agent that destroys offensive smells; a deodorizer.
Insufferable :: Insufferable (a.) Offensive beyond endurance; detestable.
Papism :: Papism (n.) Popery; -- an offensive term.
Caterwaul :: Caterwaul (v. i.) To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise..
Maladdress :: Maladdress (n.) Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one..
Bludgeon :: Bludgeon (n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon..
Civet :: Civet (n.) A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeable when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume..
Bear''s-foot :: Bear's-foot (n.) A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic..
Hound''s-tongue :: Hound's-tongue (n.) A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue..
Iodoform :: Iodoform (n.) A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores..
Funk :: Funk (n.) An offensive smell; a stench.
Armory :: Armory (n.) Armor; defensive and offensive arms.
Disgust :: Disgust (v. t.) Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust..
Unoffensive :: Unoffensive (a.) Inoffensive.
Disagreeably :: Disagreeably (adv.) In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.
Rot :: Rot (v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay..
Disorderly :: Disorderly (a.) Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house..
Inoffensive :: Inoffensive (a.) Harmless; doing no injury or mischief.
Nuisance :: Nuisance (n.) That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.
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