an offence

Examples

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight. P. G. Wodehouse

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. Thomas Aquinas

I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Thomas Jefferson

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. But this, I hold, is an offence against every decent conception of mankind. Karl Popper

Satire, by being leveled at all, is never resented for an offence by any. Jonathan Swift

In the very act of committing an offence. Latin Proverb

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