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offensively
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial offensively has 3 senses
- offensively(r = adv.all) Array - in an unpleasantly offensive manner; "he smelled offensively unwashed" Antonym: inoffensively
- offensively(r = adv.all) objectionably, obnoxiously - in an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences"
- offensively(r = adv.all) Array - in an aggressive manner; "`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said"; "the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean" Antonym: defensively
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