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Adjective
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Unpleasant or disgusting to the senses
unpleasant
disagreeable
disturbing
offensive
unpalatable
upsetting
unsavoryUS
unsavouryUK
disgusting
nasty
horrible
revolting
foul
dreadful
loathsome
awful
odious
vile
abominable
repellent
distasteful
repulsive
sickening
obnoxious
appalling
horrid
repugnant
nauseating
abhorrent
terrible
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“The offending smell coming from the garbage bin made everyone gag.”
Adjective
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Erring or straying from the accepted course or standards
errant
aberrant
mischievous
naughty
deviating
misbehaving
guilty
sinning
delinquent
bad
criminal
culpable
lawbreaking
lawless
transgressing
deviant
straying
froward
erring
fallible
sinful
wrong
contrary
difficult
troublesome
unmanageable
unruly
disobedient
uncontrollable
wayward
devious
errable
erratic
miscreant
rowdy
stray
heretic
unreliable
badly behaved
out of control
off straight and narrow
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Adjective
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Extremely offensive, harsh and insulting
opprobrious
abusive
scurrilous
vituperative
disparaging
insulting
contumelious
pejorative
denigratory
derogatory
vitriolic
contemptuous
belittling
deprecatory
offensive
scornful
degrading
scandalous
derisive
calumnious
insolent
invective
calumniatory
injurious
maligning
vituperatory
scurril
scurrile
depreciative
derogative
detractive
truculent
censorious
damaging
critical
reproachful
disapproving
reviling
defaming
venomous
denigrating
malign
spiteful
vulgar
humiliating
debasing
despiteful
dismissive
damning
dishonouringUK
dishonoringUS
malevolent
aspersive
despicable
excoriating
hateful
libellingUK
libelingUS
shaming
vile
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Adjective
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Culpable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing
guilty
culpable
responsible
blameworthy
erring
convicted
felonious
liable
reprehensible
accountable
answerable
blameable
censurable
delinquent
iniquitous
sinful
condemnable
criminal
errant
incriminated
reproachable
chargeable
condemned
convictable
impeached
peccant
wrong
caught
censured
licentious
accusable
depraved
doomed
evil
wicked
at fault
to blame
in the wrong
in error
out of line
on one's head
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Verb
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To be triggering a passionate feeling or reaction
exciting
provoking
inciting
riling
stirring up
fomenting
impassioning
inflaming
rallying
roiling
rousing
stirring
triggering
aggravating
agitating
animating
electrifying
firing up
goading
inspiring
instigating
arousing
enthusing
galvanizingUS
incensing
irking
priming
ruffling
stimulating
whipping up
baiting
charging
egging on
eliciting
encouraging
enlivening
grilling
kindling
piquing
pumping up
revving up
setting off
vexing
vivifying
winding up
working up
activating
angering
awakening
bringing about
bringing out
causing
charging up
commoving
energisingUK
energizingUS
enkindling
galvanisingUK
jolting
motivating
needling
pepping up
sparking off
touching off
triggering off
working into lather
chafing
discomposing
flustering
inducing
infuriating
intensifying
maddening
shaking
shaking up
starting
taunting
upsetting
waking up
feeding the fire
Verb
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Present participle for to cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful
wounding
distressing
upsetting
affronting
outraging
annoying
insulting
irritating
displeasing
provoking
galling
piquing
vexing
ruffling
disgruntling
hurting
slighting
aggravating
angering
exasperating
riling
miffing
nettling
agitating
disconcerting
dismaying
irking
needling
peeving
narking
paining
aggrieving
antagonisingUK
antagonizingUS
disrespecting
dissing
rattling
shocking
spiting
bugging
disturbing
fretting
injuring
jarring
mortifying
snubbing
disobliging
embarrassing
horrifying
humiliating
slurring
stinging
zinging
ticking off
getting to
giving offence to
putting down
putting out
turning off
giving offence
hacking off
putting someone's nose out of joint
putting your back up
rankling with
rubbing up the wrong way
treading on someone's toes
causing offense
getting your goat
hurting somebody's feelings
cutting to the quick
“Gregory House is a maverick doctor with a gruff exterior who tends to offend his peers.”
Verb
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Present participle for to be displeasing to
disgusting
revolting
nauseating
repelling
repulsing
sickening
displeasing
upsetting
causing offence to
making sick
putting off
grossing out
turning off
filling with loathing
turning stomach
making your gorge rise
“Never again will I allow this nasty beverage to offend my tastebuds.”
Verb
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Present participle for to commit a transgression or an illegal act
erring
transgressing
falling
sinning
straying
trespassing
wandering
breaking the law
committing a crime
doing wrong
falling from grace
going astray
committing a felony
committing an offense
committing a transgression
“He does not appear to be a young man who is likely to offend in the same manner again in the future.”
Verb
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Present participle for to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation
breaking
breaching
contravening
infringing
transgressing
violating
“The code's provision requires that advertisements do not offend standards of public decency.”
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