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OFFENDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed
Example:
injured feelings
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb offend
Context examples:
I assured him that I was not offended.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“What is amiss with the song then? How has it offended your babyship?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
No happy reconciliation was to be had with him—no cheering smile or generous word: but still the Christian was patient and placid; and when I asked him if he forgave me, he answered that he was not in the habit of cherishing the remembrance of vexation; that he had nothing to forgive, not having been offended.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The Miss Musgroves were not at all tired, and Mary was either offended, by not being asked before any of the others, or what Louisa called the Elliot pride could not endure to make a third in a one horse chaise.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He was growing more and more excited, and this alarmed me for my father, who was very low that day and needed quiet; besides, I was reassured by the doctor's words, now quoted to me, and rather offended by the offer of a bribe.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She had been out-manoeuvred and out-run, to say nothing of her having been unceremoniously tumbled in the gravel, and her arrival was like that of a tornado—made up of offended dignity, justifiable wrath, and instinctive hatred for this marauder from the Wild.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I am very, very sorry we are to part—so soon, and so suddenly too; but I am not offended, indeed I am not.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Do you think she'd be offended if we offered to lend her a dress for Thursday? asked another voice.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies, by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself, without receiving an answer.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
