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offensively

adverb

aggressively

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Word Facts

Word length
11
Starts with
O
Ends with
Y
Contains
FF
Scrabble score
23
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

Meaning

Definitions

adverb

  1. aggressively

    “‘In this crisis, we must act offensively,’ the President said”

adverb

  1. in an obnoxious manner

    “he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences”

adverb

  1. in an unpleasantly offensive manner

    “he smelled offensively unwashed”

In context

Example Sentences

‘In this crisis, we must act offensively,’ the President said
the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean
he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences
he smelled offensively unwashed

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