Usually means: Causing displeasure, anger, or annoyance.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. offending: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. offending: Merriam-Webster
  3. offending: Collins English Dictionary
  4. offending: Vocabulary.com
  5. Offending, offending: Wordnik
  6. offending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. offending: Wiktionary
  8. Offending, offending: Dictionary.com
  9. offending: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Offending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. offending: Rhymezone
  12. Offending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. offending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. offending: FreeDictionary.org
  15. offending: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. offending: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offending: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. offending: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (offending)

▸ noun:  The act of committing an offence.
▸ adjective:  Responsible; to be blamed.

Similar:
violative, sinning, offensive, committal, reoffence, commission, committing, criminality, perpetration, accusation, more...

Opposite:
inoffensive, unobjectionable, harmless

Phrases:
Offending Angels, Offending the Audience, fear of offending people, more...

Adjectives:
sexual, violent, juvenile, serious, criminal, female, future, persistent, reported, chronic, subsequent

Colors:
    blood red,     bruise purple,     sickly green,     ash gray,     venom green, more...



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Similar:
violative, sinning, offensive, committal, reoffence, commission, committing, criminality, perpetration, accusation, more...

Opposite:
inoffensive, unobjectionable, harmless

Phrases:
Offending Angels, Offending the Audience, fear of offending people, more...

Adjectives:
sexual, violent, juvenile, serious, criminal, female, future, persistent, reported, chronic, subsequent

Colors:
    blood red,     bruise purple,     sickly green,     ash gray,     venom green, more...



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