Julia Davis

People could write stuff that's really offensive, but if it's written within a believable world that has a tone to it, then it can be funny. But if it's just shock-value stuff, then it's not going to work, because it's not coming from a true place.

English Comedian

Ben Carson

Our - our friends can't trust us anymore. You know, Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them. We won't even give them offensive weapons.

American Scientist

Jeremy Corbyn

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.

British Politician

Jonathan Ive

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

English Designer

Jrue Holiday

Just knowing the game of basketball, it's important to be able to see it from a different perspective, not only offensively but also defensively.

American Basketball Player

Johan Cruyff

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

Dutch Athlete

J. J. Redick

I feel like I'm a guy who consistently makes the right play and the right reads offensively and that helps my teammates.

American Athlete

Becky Sauerbrunn

Although offensive play is important, it's defending that gets you titles.

Willian

Both sides of the game, defensively and offensively, are important.

Brazilian Athlete

Cody Bellinger

If I can't help the team offensively, I can help defensively.

Words deemed offensive can vary greatly across cultures and may not be immediately obvious to learners.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Offensive' often refers to speech that personally attacks or demeans someone.

Personal Attacks

Offensive behavior isn't limited to words; actions can also be deemed inappropriate or disrespectful.

Non-Verbal Offense

The noun form often relates to a coordinated effort in conflict, like war or political campaigns.

Conflict Context

Using 'offensive' in this context implies a strategic move designed to apply pressure or seize initiative.

Strategic Use

In a military sense, it contrasts with defensive strategies that focus on protecting or holding ground.

Attack Versus Defense

Similar to military use, in sports, an offensive play focuses on scoring or gaining yards, as opposed to defense.

Sporting Analogy

This use often refers to something repulsive to the senses, not just social sensibilities.

Sense Discomfort

An offensive condition can be caused by pollution or lack of care for surroundings.

Environmental Offense

 Defense looks like they're gonna to man up with no safety. This is the exact offensive match-up that they the best receiver lined up against the linebacker. Quarterback steps back to receive the ball, five yards deep in the gun. He takes a snap, drops three steps, he plants his back foot, he's looking for an opening. There's a blitz coming off the edge!

Gridiron physics:...

 that even when my words were aggressive and offensive, I sincerely believed I was doing the right thing. Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do. We forget that they're a human being with a lifetime of experience that shaped their mind,

I grew up in the...

 but I don't necessarily have to respect the content. I might like some of it. I might like how an old church looks, for example, but this isn't the same thing. Similarly, I have a human right to say something that you may find offensive, but you do not have a human right not to be offended.

Dare to refuse the...

 makes them no less offensive than the extreme right anywhere else. So in my view, if we consider ourselves liberal or left-wing, human rights-loving or feminist, we must oppose these movements and support their grassroots opponents. Now let me be clear that I support an effective struggle

Karima Bennoune: The...

 then we go back in negotiation, around and around, so each turn around is one game day. So a few game days later it came to light that we found out this major country was planning a military offensive to dominate the entire world. Had they had their fuel supplies, they would have done it.

John Hunter: Teaching...

 Listen to them. Listen to yourself. What do you do? Well -- and this is slightly offensive -- sleep for dummies. Make your bedroom a haven for sleep. The first critical thing is make it as dark as you possibly can, and also make it slightly cool. Very important.

Why do we sleep? PIPE...

 Some, they will have been able to prevent, but others, it will have been beyond their control. Does that make their contribution futile and meaningless? Actually, it's offensive even to suggest that. What they are doing is caring for their fellow human beings

How to shift your...

 engine behind this project well I'm pegged with the the title project leader I feel now I'm just a facilitator helping create the stage for these voices to come together on to me there's a deeply offensive concept

Gyre: Creating Art From...

 Now, would you believe, would you believe that some people find that offensive? And -- And so, I mean, listen, the fact is that millennials get a lifetime of diet brand history.

A Black man goes...

 and if that fails, it goes on the offensive.