Definition of Offend

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Offend

To strike against; to attack; to assail.

To displease; to make angry; to affront.

To be offensive to; to harm; to pain; to annoy; as, strong light offends the eye; to offend the conscience.

To transgress; to violate; to sin against.

To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

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Offend Quotations

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
Jonathan Swift

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.
Mel Brooks

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
Mike Tyson

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
Scott Adams

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.
Sarah Silverman

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.
Mencius

Offend Translations

offend in Dutch is beledigen, affronteren, krenken
offend in German is beleidige, angreifen
offend in Italian is oltraggiare
offend in Latin is offendo, laedo ledo
offend in Spanish is delinquir, ofender, injuriar

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