Meaning

That may give offense; offensive..

Definitions by Sense

1. That may give offense; offensive.
2. Able to take offense; offendable.
3. Conducive to and associated with the commitment of offenses, especially criminal offenses.

Example Sentences

Nether do I se to what purpose it is to burthen the Churche with tryfflinge and unprofitable Ceremonies; or as I maie terme them with their propre name, hurtefull and offensible ceremonies, when as there is libertie to have a symple and pure Order .

Your Lordships say that her Majesty thinketh it strange, and taketh it offensible, that I appointed the Earl of Southampton general of the horse , seeing her Majesty not only denied it when I moved it, but gave an express prohibition to any such choice.

But the Lanox men were too hilarious, with counting their unhatched goals to be offensible.

Oral insecticides, whoh have proved to be effective in experimental animals, have been developed and show promise for use as an insect-repellent pill which, when swallowed by humans, will cause the body to give off odors offensible to bugs , yet not be detectable to other humans.

If they decided that they were going to go down a list and we know that there are Canadians who are heare undocumented, if they decided to try to identify all of the Canadians on that list and would challenge them solely based on their name, for some reason I think it's sometimes difficult to articulate and sometimes difficult for people to understand that identifying someone simply becaus of their last name is what we call racial profiling and especially in regards to a constitutional guaranteed right, it's extremely offensible and extremely chilling.

What is painful is offensible and whether offense is taken often depends on context, but context is left out, to be supplied by the hearer or reader, and so it is ambiguous.

Not having danced there for many years, I was then invited to it by a lady out of the country whom I had too much regard for to decline the favour; and asking her what she would please to have called for, she said, Sir Watkin's Jig, which accordingly I called for by that appellation and no other, not having the least design of giving offence to any body, or suspiciou that any body would then choose to be so offensible as to object to it, much less to make any kind of disturbance about it.

Not because I am spoilt, though you knit your brows and think so. . nor because I am exacting and offensible, though you may fancy that too.

Word Forms

• more offensible
• most offensible

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