Offended

Definition: Offended

Offended

Adjective

1. Hurt or upset; "she looked offended"; "face had a pained and puzzled expression".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "offended" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Offended

Resentment

Offended; Verb: waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against.

Crosswords: Offended

You had me take off my cross because it offended. (The Masque of the Red Death; writing credit: Charles Beaumont; R. Wright Campbell)

I am sorry, my English. Have I offended you? (Cabaret; writing credit: Christopher Isherwood; John Van Druten)

I'm so offended! I'm going to do something about this. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

I could tell by the expression on his face that he was offended. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Uh, no intense offended there. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Someone who offended all. (All Those Years Ago; performing artist: George Harrison)

Don't be offended this is all my opinion (Video; performing artist: India.Arie)

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself. (references; author: Mark Twain)

I am sorry I offended you. I should have lied. (references; author: unknown)

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Books

• For Having Offended Thee (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Have I Offended Someone? (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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I have offended you? What have I done?.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Thirdly, In the state of nature there often wants power to back and support the sentence when right, and to give it due execution, They who by any injustice offended, will seldom fail, where they are able, by force to make good their injustice; such resistance many times makes the punishment dangerous, and frequently destructive, to those who attempt it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The Knight looked very much surprised, and a little offended at the remark.

But this great England will be offended at what we say here.

The eyes were not offended which she turned upon them nor reproachful.

Wherein, my friends, have I offended you?

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Civil Liberties

India

In 2000 Hindu fundamentalist groups resorted to violence and disrupted the shooting of "Water," a film involving the exploitation of widows, as they claimed it offended Hindu sentiments. (references)

Hong Kong

At least one publication whose owner offended China's leadership in the mid-1990's subsequently has been unable to get official permission for its reporters to cover events on the mainland. (references)

Togo

Although it is not necessary to be an accredited journalist to publish an editorial or opinion article, the Government may take reprisals if offended by published material, such as arresting or detaining the writer, or firing a civil servant. (references)

Economic History

Portugal

Many businesspeople still consider a personal contact and a handshake stronger than a contract but they will not be offended if a formal contract is requested. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

However, in a reverse decision in November Judge Contreras asked to be excused from hearing the case, because he felt offended by the Archbishop Office's accusations. (references)

Political Economy

PARAGUAY

Law 1444, passed on June 25, 1999, made copyright violations "public actions," allowing public prosecutors to take legal action without requiring the offended party to seek redress. (references)

Travel

Czech Rep

Business partners do not usually call each other by their first names, and Czechs may be offended if their foreign visitors address them by their first names without first being invited to do so. It may take several meetings to establish a sense of rapport and a more relaxed attitude. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "offended": be offended ♦ being offended ♦ easily offended. Additional references.

Ending with "offended": re-offended.

Arabic 

‏مهان (insulted), ‏مستاء (discontent, discontented, disgruntled, dissatisfied). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оскърбен (hurt, injured, insulted, wounded). (various references)

Chinese 

触犯 (Offend, Offending), 生氣 (angry, mad, to be enraged, to get angry, to take offense). (various references)

Dutch

gebelgd (affronted, aggrieved, insulted), beledigd (affronted, aggrieved, insulted). (various references)

Esperanto

ofendita (affronted, hurt, insulted). (various references)

Finnish

pahastua (at, be offended, take it ill, take offence), loukkaantua (be hurt, be injured, be offended, feel resentment, resent, take offence, take something as a personal affront), herkkä loukkaantumaan (easily offended, quick to take offence). (various references)

French

péchai, péchés, péchées, péché (offence), péchâmes, pécha. (various references)

German

beleidigt (huffily, huffy, hurt, insulted, insults, libels, offends, scathes, slights, sulkily, sulky). (various references)

Greek 

ευπρόσβλητοσ (assailable, easily offended). (various references)

Hebrew 

נעלב (insulted, pained). (various references)

Hungarian

megsértődik vmi miatt (to be offended at sg, to take exception to sg, to take sg amiss). (various references)

Indonesian

tersinggung. (various references)

Italian

offeso (harmed, hurt, injured, insulted, slighted). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, morose, munch, nausea, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire), 中腹 (halfway up, irritated, mountain side). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

むっつり (morose, sullen), むっと (morose, sullen), ちゅうっぱら (irritated). (various references)

Korean 

기분을 상하게 하는. (various references)

Manx

friogganagh (bad-tempered, bristly, cantankerous, crabby, echinoid, edgy, finned, finny, liverish, prickly, ratty, setaceous, stickleback, touchy), crosht (crossed). (various references)

Pig Latin

offendeday

Portuguese

escandalizar (horrifying, scandalize, shock). (various references)

Romanian

ofensat (injured). (various references)

Russian 

обижать обиженный. (various references)

Swedish

stött (huffy, hurt, promoted). (various references)

Turkish

küskün (repining, resentful), küs (stuffy), kırgın (chagrined, disappointed, disgruntled, displeased, hurt, injured, sore, vexed, wroth), gücenmiş (huffish, hurt, in a tiff, resentful), dargın (angry with, cross, displeased, huffish, huffy, injured, resentful, stuffy, vexed, wroth). (various references)

Turkmen 

nadyl, цяkeli (hurt), kineli. (various references)

Welsh

chwithio (feel dismayed, feel offended). (various references)

taedebit, taedere, taederet, taedet, taeduit. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Offended" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: offenced, offendedly, offened, offenee. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: defend, doffed, fended, fonded, offend.

-3 letters: donee, ended, offed.

-4 letters: deed, dene, doff, done, eddo, feed, fend, feod, fond, need, node.

-5 letters: dee, den, doe, don, eff, end, eon, fed, fee, fen, foe, fon, nee, nod, odd, ode, off, one.

+1 letter: forfended.

+2 letters: forefended.

+5 letters: offhandedness.

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