Crossword clues for offending
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offend \Of*fend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Offended; p. pr. & vb. n. Offending.] [OF. offendre, L. offendere, offensum; ob (see Ob-) + fendere (in comp.) to thrust, dash. See Defend.]
To strike against; to attack; to assail. [Obs.]
--Sir P. Sidney.-
To displease; to make angry; to affront.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city.
--Prov. xviii. 19. To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.
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To transgress; to violate; to sin against. [Obs.]
Marry, sir, he hath offended the law.
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(Script.) To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall. [Obs.]
Who hath you misboden or offended.
--Chaucer.If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out . . . And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off.
--Matt. v. 29, 3O.Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.
--Ps. cxix. 165.
Wiktionary
n. The act of committing an offence. vb. (present participle of offend English)
WordNet
adj. offending against or breaking a law or rule; "contracts offending against the statute were canceled" [ant: unoffending]
Usage examples of "offending".
The bull attacked the offending machine yet again and Brewster was almost thrown out of his seat.
But before the Bursar could think of anything to recommend the Public School system without offending his hostess.
He offended from the crine of his head to the metatarsus of his foot, and he hacked off every offending part.
The computer obliged with a color-coded abstraction that showed the sequencing of base pairs on the offending palindrome as a series of little plugs and sockets.
They looked to see issue some sailor seized for whistling of a Sabbath, some profane peasant who had presumed to wear pattens in church, some profaner peasant who had not doffed his hat to the Connetable, or some slip-shod militiaman who had gone to parade in his sabots, thereby offending the red-robed dignity of the Royal Court.
Accepting the handkerchief, he carefully removed the offending lipstick, although it was his favorite pearlized pink.
She pointed out to this woman that not only did the condition of the flags make the store look scruffy but they were risking offending wealthy Zairean shoppers by the state of their flag and they also risked annoying peripatetic Ukrainians, whose beloved national standard, symbol of freedom, icon of the throwing off of a thousand years of Russian imperialism, was flying upside down.
Under the current laws ofspace salvage, all of thesefacts constitute sufficient reason to consider and treat the offending vessel not merely as salvable but as an actual and continuing hazard.
With an oath he flung the seax at the offending portal where it clattered on the wood and then on the floor.
English, bring it within the ambit of the English Tripos and yet avoid offending the experts?
Ruffled feathers were smoothed when it turned out that the offending laptop belonged to a reporter who was researching Angolan landmines for a completely unconnected programme.
Now with the arthroscope we can see inside the knee and find the offending flap, cut it off and pull it out through tiny holes that will leave the knee virtually untouched.
If Bloch wanted to get me out of his hair without offending his sensitive nature, the simplest course would be to slip something in my food.
When he fled the city before he could be arrested, Luther revenged himself partly by a Catilinarian sermon, partly by composing, for circulation among his friends, some verses about Lemnius in which the scurrility and obscenity of the offending youth were well over-trumped.
When, say, galley proofs were censored, the offending material was returned to the publisher with blue-penciled passages to be altered or deleted along with a standard form that simply indicated the paragraph or paragraphs of the ten-item Press Code that these impermissible passages violated.