The more beautiful the flower is, the more does one
offend God in despising it.
Nay, ma'am," answered she, "to be sure, I would sooner cut out my tongue than
offend your ladyship.
Franklin Blake that his last letter--evidently intended to
offend her-- has not succeeded in accomplishing the object of the writer.
Senior police chiefs have reportedly told officers that they must not wear their black and white with thin blue line union flag on their uniforms while paying tribute to fallen comrades, in case the union flag
offends anyone.
The Opposition should be able to get up and attack the government no matter how much this
offends the Prime Minister.
A man
offends, gets arrested, sent to court, probably a few court hearings, gets a slap on the wrist, told to do some community work,
offends again, goes through the same process again but has a fine added,
offends again so gets a suspended sentence,
offends again and gets sent to prison.
It's hypocritical to say that the flag of the country you have chosen to live in
offends you.
I don't know what
offends people most, but I know what
offends me.
1 : to hurt the feelings of or insult <She uses language that
offends people.
A Russian teenager wants her public school to stop using a biology textbook that includes study of evolution, because she says it
offends her religious beliefs.
If I feel that I have
offended someone, I will apologize; but if someone
offends me, and believe me, as a female in the all-male world that I live in, it happens all the time, it's how I choose to deal with it and I say it's their problem, not mine, and I will not let someone else determine how I feel.
Come on England is what I say, and if that
offends anyone from Land's End to John O' Groats, from Brazil to Trinidad and Tobago then, frankly, tough.
The Red Cross has banned Christmas decorations in their shops - in case it
offends people of other faiths.
