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Definition of Offensively
1. Adverb. In an unpleasantly offensive manner. "He smelled offensively unwashed"
2. Adverb. In an obnoxious manner. "He said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences"
3. Adverb. In an aggressive manner. "The admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean"
Definition of Offensively
1. Adverb. In an offensive manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Offensively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offensively
Literary usage of Offensively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"He bitterly and offensively criticises the President's management of military
affairs—sending Morgan into Kentucky, ..."
2. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... to grant Letters of Marque, &c. and to act offensively against the Spaniards;
and referring me farther to his Letter of the I3th, which I had received. ..."
3. The History of Modern Europe: And a View of the Progress of Society from the by William Russell (1837)
"... offensively'. Filled with indignation at a discovery so fatal to his own glory,
as well as to the common cause of the confederates, the prince of Savoy ..."
4. The Guilds of Florence by Edgcumbe Staley (1906)
"Very fitly it was called in the public notices—" The Fish out of Water "—a term
ever after offensively applied to any foolish freak, and especially when an ..."
5. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis (1881)
"His words, " Put the Matter offensively."—Exchange of Slaves. —Proposition of
Lee to Grant.—Reply of Grant.—Further Reply.—His Dispatch to General Butler. ..."
6. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"one day, after he had been drinking, very offensively to foine of the Council,
in the prefence of the Prince. The time was not conceived ..."
7. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"... rough and unpolished in his speech, rude in his manners, and in his dress and
bearing offensively indifferent to the ordinary requirements of society. ..."
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