offensible
That may give offense; offensive.
Adjective
- That may give offense; offensive.
- Nether do I se to what purpose it is to burthen the Churche with tryfflinge and unprofitable Ceremonies; or as I maie terme them with their propre name, hurtefull and offensible ceremonies, when as there is libertie to...
- Your Lordships say that her Majesty thinketh it strange, and taketh it offensible, that I appointed the Earl of Southampton general of the horse , seeing her Majesty not only denied it when I moved it, but gave an...
- But the Lanox men were too hilarious, with counting their unhatched goals to be offensible. - 1910 August 1, Rupert Hughes, “The Exquisite Thug”, in Delta Upsilon Quarterly, volume 28, number 4, page 488:
- Able to take offense; offendable.
- Not having danced there for many years, I was then invited to it by a lady out of the country whom I had too much regard for to decline the favour; and asking her what she would please to have called for, she said, Sir...
- Not because I am spoilt, though you knit your brows and think so. . nor because I am exacting and offensible, though you may fancy that too. - 1898, Robert Browning, The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett,...
- Ah, no offense taken, lad. I'm the least offensible man you'll ever meet. - 2017, DJ Edwardson, The Last Motley:
- Conducive to and associated with the commitment of offenses, especially criminal offenses.
- offensible space
- I might add to that, as a technical matter, the type of reactors the U.S. suppliers are not exporting, so called light water reactors, are the less offensible in terms of the proliferation problem, of potentially any...
- But this is only one way in which some social and geographical areas are more "offensible" than others. - 1995, John Hagan, Ruth D. Peterson, Crime and Inequality, page 27:
Origin
From offense + -ible.