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OFFENSIVE ACTIVITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others
Synonyms:
discourtesy; offence; offense; offensive activity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("offensive activity" is a kind of...):
behavior; behaviour; conduct; doings (manner of acting or controlling yourself)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "offensive activity"):
derision; ridicule (the act of deriding or treating with contempt)
indelicacy (an impolite act or expression)
insolence (an offensive disrespectful impudent act)
affront; insult (a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect)
presumption (a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming)
rebuff; slight (a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval))
