- offend
- offend, outrage, affront, insult mean to cause vexation or resentment or damage to self-respect.One offends by displeasing another, by hurting his feelings, or by violating his sense of what is proper or fitting{
if the First Amendment means anything, it means that a man cannot be sent to prison merely for distributing publications which offend a judge's esthetic sensibilities— Potter Stewart
}{fangless perceptions which will please the conservative power and delight the liberal power, offend no one— Mailer
}{knew that he had offended his father but guilt would have been too exact a word for the pain and uneasiness he felt— Cheever
}One outrages by offending another past endurance, or by offending his pride or his sense of justice or honor{her power to make him do things which outraged all his upbringing— Sackville-West
}{listened to the beginning of the uproar, the shrill cries of the ladies and the outraged unbelieving exclamations of the men— Dahl
}{"Grief of two years' standing is only a bad habit." Alice started, outraged. Her mother's grief was sacred to her— Shaw
}One affronts who, either with an intent to offend or with deliberate indifference to civility or cour-tesy, humiliates or dishonors a person and arouses his deep resentment{a moral, sensible, and well-bred man will not affront me, and no other can— Cowper
}One insults who wantonly and insolently offends another so as to cause him humiliation or shame{you can annoy, you can insult, you cannot move me— Meredith
}{he would insult them flagrantly; he would fling hrs hands in the air and thunder at their ignorance— Auchincloss
}
New Dictionary of Synonyms. 2014.
