offensively English

Meaning offensively meaning

What does offensively mean?

offensively

— adverb in an unpleasantly offensive manner he smelled offensively unwashed

— adverb in an aggressive manner 'In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean

— adverb in an obnoxious manner he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences

Synonyms offensively synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as offensively?

offensively English » English

disagreeably

aggressively

unpleasantly

obnoxiously

objectionably

insultingly

unwantedly

undesirably

truculently

repellingly

provokingly

outrageously

offensive

obscenely

loud

distastefully

displeasingly

belligerently

abusively

abominably