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Recent Examples of offensiveness
Villainy, at the elite level, will not content itself with offensiveness alone; the all-timers, the boundary-pushers, bring fresh nuance to their antics.
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Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
The push came amid concerns about the offensiveness of the name.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2025
There was a Lynchian quality to the podcast, a fun-house-size absurdism that offset its overt offensiveness.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
The push came amid concerns about the offensiveness of the name.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2025
There was a Lynchian quality to the podcast, a fun-house-size absurdism that offset its overt offensiveness.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for offensiveness
Noun
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Brianna seems to swing between two moods: intense enthusiasm, intense repugnance.—
Joyce Carol Oates,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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In fact, the retort could lead people to dangerously belittle the scourge and repugnance of real anti-Semitism.—
Salam Fayyad,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2024
Noun
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Over the last 40 years, their lives and careers all took divergent paths marked by innovation, acclaim, and infamy.—
Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
27 Mar. 2026
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On March 10, @Hamilton_DPOY returned to X with the photo that would launch him into viral infamy.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Spock is this brilliant, arrogant, aloof-to-the-point-of-obnoxiousness genius.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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His loudness and obnoxiousness are personal liabilities that can become functional assets for the rest of the cast.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But Israelis have managed to endure even the latest unpleasantness with characteristic resilience.—
Michael M. Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Still, no sense relitigating all that unpleasantness now.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Supporters of both sides have spread bogus images of atrocities or decisive victories that never happened.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The war has been marked by atrocities including mass killings, gang rape and other crimes, which are being investigated by the International Criminal Court as potential war crimes and crimes against humanity.—
Samy Magdy,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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It has been tested for durability, strength, stability and water repellency.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Dec. 2025
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Even so, the lightweight layer is made of durable nylon with PFC-free water repellency.—
Rachel Chang,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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While some recent sales have been sluggish — Susan Gutfreund’s 12,000-square-foot duplex listed for $120 million in 2016 and finally sold for $53 million three years later, that seems more a symptom of delusional pricing than undesirability.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
13 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Offensiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offensiveness. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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