Synonyms for offend
əˈfɛndof·fend

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1. offend

   One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.

   Synonyms:
   affront, aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, insult, irritate, provoke, tease, vex, wound

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

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1. offend

   Synonyms:
   displease, affront, outrage, irritate, shock, annoy, pain, wound, nettle, vex, err, fall

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, gratify, please

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1. pique, offendverb

   cause to feel resentment or indignation

   "Her tactless remark offended me"

   Synonyms:
   injure, hurt, spite, go against, violate, appall, outrage, shock, transgress, scandalise, pique, break, appal, scandalize, bruise, breach, infract, wound

2. transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, breakverb

   act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

   "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise"

   Synonyms:
   crack, break away, plunder, soften, reveal, give out, unwrap, conk out, spite, part, collapse, disclose, die, transgress, ruin, founder, weaken, rape, outrage, discover, trespass, snap off, stop, go, demote, wear out, break out, separate, split, give away, damp, smash, interrupt, spoil, appal, wound, overstep, relegate, bring out, violate, hurt, divulge, pause, break-dance, assault, get around, ravish, cave in, let on, buck, pique, desecrate, check, break up, breach, break in, give, split up, dishonour, better, gap, burst, injure, break off, dishonor, bust, erupt, bruise, recrudesce, break dance, go against, dampen, fall in, bump, let out, scandalise, fall apart, kick downstairs, scandalize, profane, fracture, break down, shock, infract, fail, come apart, bankrupt, develop, give way, sin, expose, break, go bad, discontinue, despoil, intermit, get out, appall, wear

3. shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrageverb

   strike with disgust or revulsion

   "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"

   Synonyms:
   dishonour, scandalise, ravish, profane, traumatize, dishonor, traumatise, desecrate, spite, transgress, injure, floor, scandalize, appal, wound, blow out of the water, break, horrify, alarm, ball over, dismay, hurt, breach, rape, violate, infract, shock, take aback, outrage, appall, assault, bruise, go against, pique

4. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spiteverb

   hurt the feelings of

   "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

   Synonyms:
   injure, hurt, suffer, smart, violate, shock, appall, wound, transgress, scandalise, pique, contuse, appal, scandalize, outrage, bruise, go against, breach, pain, infract, spite, anguish, ache, break

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1. • Anger

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1. offendverb

   Synonyms:
   affront, displease, vex, chafe, annoy, irritate, provoke, nettle, fret, gall, give offence to, make angry

2. offendverb

   Synonyms:
   shock, wound, pain

3. offendverb

   Synonyms:
   give offence

4. offendverb

   Synonyms:
   transgress, sin, do wrong, commit offence

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1. offendverb

   Synonyms:
   displease, affront, provoke, mortify, exasperate, incense, wound, shock

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1. List of paraphrases for "offend":

   insult, disparage, offended

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How to use offend in a sentence?

1. Fani Willis:

   I'll tell your viewers and any other viewers : It does not offend me to call me Black. It just doesn't. They're wasting their time, however, they continue to send those very nasty messages. I've never been called the N-word so much in my life.

2. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince:

   There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.

3. Cal McNair:

   My comments at the event last May included an inappropriate choice of words. I immediately apologized to people who approached me then and I apologize again now. I know how important it is to choose my words carefully. I would never want to offend anyone.

4. Seth Lloyd:

   I believed, at the time, that I was doing a good deed. Mr. Epstein expressed remorse for his actions and assured me that he would not re-offend.

5. Ryan Pack:

   People get angry when I insult them justly, but they never care when they offend me unjustly.