offended

verb

Definition of offendednext
past tense of offend
1
as in trespassed
to commit an offense since this is the first time you've offended, we'll let you off lightly

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2
as in insulted
to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in the visitor unintentionally offended his hosts terribly by failing to compliment them on the elaborately prepared meal

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3
as in violated
to fail to keep offended conventional standards of uniformity by not adhering to the company dress code

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for offended
  1. violated
  2. fell
  3. outraged
  4. wandered
Verb
  • And can anyone even count at this point how many times characters on this show have violated HIPAA?
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The distribution of Pandas in a Pennsylvania public school district led to a 2005 district court decision that determined the school board had violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of violated
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  • Last week, the band had to cancel shows in Chula Vista, CA and Phoenix, AZ after Cronin was felled by an undisclosed illness.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The Commanders fan is dropped with a punch as the other lunges at the Ravens fan, only to be thrown into a brick wall and ultimately felled.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of fell
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  • Many Disney employees were outraged by the bill, and because the company’s largest theme park is based in the state, there was massive internal pressure on then-CEO Bob Chapek to speak out against it.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Vance is equally fluent in the language of the national élite, and therefore knows how to get the national media to cover his crazy theories, and how to get national people outraged by them.
    David Fontana, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of outraged
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  • Elton was also fabulous, though my mind admittedly wandered much of the time.
    Marcus Ryle, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • There’s hints also that Gandalf may have come earlier than the third age and wandered amongst some of the peoples of Middle-earth.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of wandered
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