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            "mean": "Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, sadness, or indignation.\n2016 September 12,  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,  \u201cKareem Abdul-Jabbar: Political Incorrectness Is Just a Strategy\u201d, in  Time\u200e:A survey at Yale University had 63% of students wanting professors to issue \u201ctrigger warnings\u201d before saying anything that some might find offensive or could cause painful emotions.\nSome people find pornography offensive.\nAn offensive smell.\nAntonym: inoffensive"
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            "mean": "Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.\n2013 June 7,  Ed Pilkington,  \u201c\u2018Killer robots\u2019 should be banned in advance, UN told\u201d, in  The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:In his submission to the UN,  Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.\nThe army's offensive capabilities. An offensive weapon.\nAntonym: defensive"
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            "mean": "(sports) Having to do with play directed at scoring.\nThe offensive coordinator is responsible for ordering all rushing plays."
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            "mean": "(countable, military) An attack.\nThe Marines today launched a major offensive.\n1939 January,  Lin Yu,  \u201cThe \"China Incident\"\u201d, in  Philippine Magazine\u200e, volume XXXVI, number 1, \u2192OCLC, page 121:In Central Hupeh, the Japanese launched another offensive from the Kingshan region, but instead of moving southwestward to cooperate with another column of theirs to capture Shasi, this column swerved to the northwest and succeeded in capturing Chunghsiang on the Han River."
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            "mean": "(uncountable) The posture of attacking or being able to attack.\nHe took the offensive in the press, accusing his opponent of corruption."
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            "mean": "\u201coffensive\u201d, inWebster\u2019s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass. G.  C. Merriam, 1913, \u2192OCLC.\n\u201coffensive\u201d, inThe Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y. The Century Co., 1911, \u2192OCLC."
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