Word Finder - offended

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To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.

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Your accusations offend me deeply.

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To feel or become offended; to take insult.

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Don't worry. I don't offend easily.

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To physically harm, pain.

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Strong light offends the eye.

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To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.

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Physically enjoyable frivolity can still offend the conscience

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To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.

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To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.

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To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

I'm sorry if I offended you.

If I have offended you or anyone with my morals, I'm sorry.

Have I offended your honor?

I will not be offended if you choose to spend the day in mourning, my friend.

You know, I won't be offended if you just say no.

In any case, even if Henry had offended her personally, she wouldn't have run to Daddy about it.

But mind you come to dinner or I shall be offended, ma chere!

Was he offended or surprised?

She wanted to be offended by his comment but suspected he spoke the truth.

Kiera frowned, offended Ne'Rin thought so little of her, but not surprised.

Unfortunately, in so doing, he used phrases savouring of aristocracy which offended many of his countrymen, - as in the sentence in which he suggested that " the rich, the well-born and the able " should be set apart from other men in a senate.

The criminal laws were of extreme severity, even petty theft being punished by the thief being enslaved to the person he had robbed, while to steal a tobacco pouch or twenty ears of corn was death; he who pilfered in the market was then and there beaten to death, and he who insulted Xipe, the god of the goldand silversmiths, by stealing his precious metal, was skinned alive and sacrificed to the offended deity.

Kiera tossed the thoughts around in her head, guilty at the thought of ditching Evelyn yet offended that Evey thought to keep her here without telling her.

Had she offended him?

In no other way could the tsarevich have offended his father so deeply.

Through the intervention of Pompey, he became reconciled to Cicero, who had been greatly offended because Claudius had indirectly opposed his return from exile.

The king's cupbearer, Sarcas, was very much offended because he was not given a share of the feast.

One general (an important personage), evidently feeling offended at having to wait so long, sat crossing and uncrossing his legs and smiling contemptuously to himself.

The appointment of a new peace commission in 1778 offended the admiral deeply, and he sent in a resignation of his command.

The new king was offended by Williams's advice to proceed with caution in dealing with the parliament, with the result that within a few months of Charles's accession the Great Seal was taken from Williams. In the quarrel between the king and the Commons over the petition of right, Williams took the popular side in condemning arbitrary imprisonment by the sovereign.

His young wife was deeply offended by treatment which she naturally regarded as unhandsome.

The king's second wife, Isabella of Portugal, was offended at the immense influence of the constable, and urged her husband to free himself from slavery to his favourite.

Quarrels of a kind only too common among exiles followed; the Hungarians were especially offended by his claim still to be called governor.

But his eloquence offended the narrow and cramped particularism of those little democratic cities, deaf to the sentiment of the common interest.

He's an army-type and has strict instructions, so don't be offended if he's less than conversational.

The same year he offended the court by a Whig sermon, but in 1779 became archdeacon of Ely.

You are offended at being put on duty a bit, but why not apologize to an old and honorable officer?

Offended once again, she said nothing as he rose and returned the translator to Talal.

You haven't offended me.

Sensing she offended the petite beauty, Jessi held out her hand as directed.

When the Democrats, however, declared such language incendiary he tried to explain it away, and by so doing offended his friends without appeasing his opponents.

He here continued to render great service to Abu Salem (Ibrahim III.), Abu Inan's successor, but, having offended the prime minister, he obtained permission to emigrate to Spain, where, at Granada, he was received with great cordiality by Ibn al Ahmar, who had been greatly indebted to his good offices when an exile at the court of Abu Salem.

At Merry Mount, in that part of Braintree which is now Quincy, a settlement was established by Thomas Morton in 1625, but the gay life of the settlers and their selling rum and firearms to the Indians greatly offended the Pilgrims of Plymouth, who in 1627 arrested Morton; soon afterward Governor John Endecott of Massachusetts Bay visited Merry Mount, rebuked the inhabitants and cut down their Maypole.

Its characteristic note was an insistence on discipline which offended contemporaries.

Her tears were those of an offended child who does not know why it is being punished.

Having thereby greatly offended the king, he was accused of being privy to a treasonable conspiracy and thrown into prison, where he died from torture or disease.

But Agamemnon had offended the goddess Artemis by slaying a hind sacred to her, and boasting himself a better hunter.

Agamemnon had offended Artemis, who prevented the Greek fleet from sailing for Troy, and, according to the soothsayer Calchas, could be appeased only by the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter.

To accomplish this end it was necessary to unite among themselves, and union could only be secured by the nomination of some one who offended nobody.

The tone of the demand offended Bayezid, who rejected it in terms equally sharp. As a result Timur's countless hordes attacked and took Sivas, plundering the town and massacring its inhabitants.

They do not recognize any other mode of reconcilement to the offended but loving Father.

The latter bitterly offended the Londoners, who, finding that they could turn the scales to either side, named the Commune as the price of their support of John.

Mirabeau had approached him so early as December 1788, with a plan for the policy to be pursued by the court towards the new states general; but Montmorin, offended by Mirabeau's attacks on Necker and by his Histoire secrete de la tour de Berlin, refused to see him.

Having offended the influential iElfgifu, he was outlawed and compelled to flee to Flanders.

The introduction of the India Bill in November 1783 alarmed many vested interests, and offended the king by the provision which gave the patronage of India to a commission to be named by the ministry and removable only by parliament.

In 1803 Tierney, partly because peace had been ratified with France and partly because Pitt was out of office, joined the ministry of Addington as treasurer of the navy, and was created a privy councillor; but this alienated many of his supporters among the middle classes, and offended most of the influential Whigs.

Thus for the benefit of Madame de Lamballe the queen revived the superfluous and expensive office of superintendent of her household, which led constant disagreements and jealousies among her ladies and offended many important families.

The French court was offended, and he was confined for six months.

He afterwards fled to Athens, where he was soon put to death by Octavian, whom he had offended by writing an abusive letter (Suetonius, Augustus, 4).

But the elector John George III., at whose personal desire the post had been offered to him, was soon offended at the fearless conscientiousness with which his chaplain sought to discharge his pastoral duties.