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  • 21Offensive — Of*fen sive, a. [Cf. F. offensif. See {Offend}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. [1913 Webster] 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting;… …

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  • 22Offensively — Offensive Of*fen sive, a. [Cf. F. offensif. See {Offend}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. [1913 Webster] 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable;… …

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  • 23Offensiveness — Offensive Of*fen sive, a. [Cf. F. offensif. See {Offend}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. [1913 Webster] 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable;… …

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  • 24hateful — hatefully, adv. hatefulness, n. /hayt feuhl/, adj. 1. arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators. 2. unpleasant; dislikable; distasteful: She found her domestic chores hateful. 3. full of or expressing hate;… …

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  • 25Michel Le Tellier —     ♦ Michel Le Tellier     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Michel Le Tellier     Born 16 October, 1643, of a peasant family, not at Vire as has so often been said, but at Vast near Cherbourg; died at La Flèche, 2 September, 1719. He was educated at… …

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  • 26unpleasant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. disagreeable, offensive, displeasing, unpleasing, bad, nasty, sickening; noisome; unattractive, unsatisfactory; surly, unfriendly. See discourtesy, unsavoriness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Not… …

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  • 27offensive — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Concerned with an attack] Syn. assaulting, attacking, invading; see aggressive 2 . 2. [Revolting] Syn. obnoxious, odious, opprobrious, disagreeable, displeasing, abhorrent, reprehensible, detestable, repulsive, repugnant …

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  • 28bad — adj 1. virtueless, unrighteous, godless, impious, ungodly; immoral, amoral, nonmoral, unmoral, unprincipled, reprobate; corrupt, depraved, perverted, profligate, dissolute, libertine, abandoned, licentious; unscrupulous, dishonest, crooked,… …

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  • 29displease — [c]/dɪsˈpliz / (say dis pleez) verb (displeased, displeasing) –verb (t) 1. to cause dissatisfaction to; offend; annoy. –verb (i) 2. to be unpleasant; cause displeasure. –displeasing, adjective –displeasingly, adverb …

  • 30ugly — /ˈʌgli / (say uglee) adjective (uglier, ugliest) 1. repulsive or displeasing in appearance; offensive to the sense of beauty: ugly furniture. 2. morally revolting: ugly sin. 3. disagreeable; unpleasant; objectionable: *Then there was the ugly… …