be offensive
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Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.
God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn't want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
A true friend does sometime venture to be offensive.