Crossword clues for offensiveness
offensiveness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offensive \Of*fen"sive\, a. [Cf. F. offensif. See Offend.]
Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.
Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. ``Offensive to the stomach.''
--Bacon.-
Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive; as, an offensive war; offensive weapons.
League offensive and defensive, a leaque that requires all the parties to it to make war together against any foe, and to defend one another if attacked.
Syn: Displeasing; disagreeable; distasteful; obnoxious; abhorrent; disgusting; impertinent; rude; saucy; reproachful; opprobrious; insulting; insolent; abusive; scurrilous; assailant; attacking; invading. [1913 Webster] -- Of*fen"sive*ly, adv. -- Of*fen"sive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being offensive
WordNet
n. the quality of being offensive [syn: odiousness, distastefulness]
Usage examples of "offensiveness".
Everywhere the city was growing out over the country, in blocks and detached edifices of limestone, sandstone, red and yellow brick, larger or smaller, of no more uniformity than our suburban dwellings, but never of their ugliness or lawless offensiveness.
The offensiveness of Inspector Mordan, Reggie has complained, lies in his capacity for being partly right.
The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee: they were such a personification of cockiness as, taken together, will never again, one may hope, be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness.