Synonyms for offend
əˈfɛndof·fend

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1. offend

   One may be annoyed by the well-meaning awkwardness of a servant, irritated by a tight shoe or a thoughtless remark, vexed at some careless neglect or needless misfortune, wounded by the ingratitude of child or friend. To tease is to give some slight and perhaps playful annoyance. Aggravate in the sense of offend is colloquial. To provoke, literally to call out or challenge, is to begin a contest; one provokes another to violence. To affront is to offer some defiant offense or indignity, as it were, to one's face; it is somewhat less than to insult. Compare PIQUE.

   Synonyms:
   affront, aggravate, annoy, displease, exasperate, insult, irritate, provoke, tease, vex, wound

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, content, gratify, honor, please

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1. offend

   Synonyms:
   displease, affront, outrage, irritate, shock, annoy, pain, wound, nettle, vex, err, fall

   Antonyms:
   conciliate, gratify, please

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1. pique, offendverb

   cause to feel resentment or indignation

   "Her tactless remark offended me"

   Synonyms:
   injure, hurt, spite, go against, violate, appall, outrage, shock, transgress, scandalise, pique, break, appal, scandalize, bruise, breach, infract, wound

2. transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, breakverb

   act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

   "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise"

   Synonyms:
   crack, break away, plunder, soften, reveal, give out, unwrap, conk out, spite, part, collapse, disclose, die, transgress, ruin, founder, weaken, rape, outrage, discover, trespass, snap off, stop, go, demote, wear out, break out, separate, split, give away, damp, smash, interrupt, spoil, appal, wound, overstep, relegate, bring out, violate, hurt, divulge, pause, break-dance, assault, get around, ravish, cave in, let on, buck, pique, desecrate, check, break up, breach, break in, give, split up, dishonour, better, gap, burst, injure, break off, dishonor, bust, erupt, bruise, recrudesce, break dance, go against, dampen, fall in, bump, let out, scandalise, fall apart, kick downstairs, scandalize, profane, fracture, break down, shock, infract, fail, come apart, bankrupt, develop, give way, sin, expose, break, go bad, discontinue, despoil, intermit, get out, appall, wear

3. shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrageverb

   strike with disgust or revulsion

   "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"

   Synonyms:
   dishonour, scandalise, ravish, profane, traumatize, dishonor, traumatise, desecrate, spite, transgress, injure, floor, scandalize, appal, wound, blow out of the water, break, horrify, alarm, ball over, dismay, hurt, breach, rape, violate, infract, shock, take aback, outrage, appall, assault, bruise, go against, pique

4. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spiteverb

   hurt the feelings of

   "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

   Synonyms:
   injure, hurt, suffer, smart, violate, shock, appall, wound, transgress, scandalise, pique, contuse, appal, scandalize, outrage, bruise, go against, breach, pain, infract, spite, anguish, ache, break

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1. • Anger

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1. offendverb

   Synonyms:
   affront, displease, vex, chafe, annoy, irritate, provoke, nettle, fret, gall, give offence to, make angry

2. offendverb

   Synonyms:
   shock, wound, pain

3. offendverb

   Synonyms:
   give offence

4. offendverb

   Synonyms:
   transgress, sin, do wrong, commit offence

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1. offendverb

   Synonyms:
   displease, affront, provoke, mortify, exasperate, incense, wound, shock

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1. List of paraphrases for "offend":

   insult, disparage, offended

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1. Strange Donuts owner Jason Bockman:

   It was never my attention to offend anyone, i was hurt that I offended people.

2. Joe Rogan:

   I certainly would never want to offend someone for entertainment with something as stupid as racism.

3. Pannada Diskul:

   I've told the ambassador that the director did not intend to offend anyone, the director had decided to make changes to the film even before it made news to ease everybody's concerns. The ambassador understands this well.

4. William Congreve:

   Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

5. Al Franken:

   Satire has a very important place. It's meant to be provocative. It's meant to start discussions. You offend very often … it's hard to figure out where exactly the line is, and people have different ideas of where that line is, i think we need to be careful and understand what the role of satire is.