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offensive

adjective
  1. Extremely unpleasant to the senses or feelings: atrocious, disgusting, foul, horrid, nasty, nauseating, repellent, repulsive, revolting, sickening, ugly, unwholesome, vile. See like, pain
  2. Not pleasant or agreeable: bad, disagreeable, displeasing, uncongenial, unpleasant, unsympathetic. Informal: icky. Slang: yucky. See good, pain
noun
The act of attacking: aggression, assailment, assault, attack, attempt, offense, onrush, onset, onslaught, strike. See attack

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