ಅರ್ಥ : In an unpleasantly offensive manner.
ಉದಾಹರಣೆ :
He smelled offensively unwashed.
In a not unpleasantly offensive manner.
That wretched beast, the elephant, breathing inoffensively not a pace behind me.ಅರ್ಥ : In an obnoxious manner.
ಉದಾಹರಣೆ :
He said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences.
ಸಮಾನಾರ್ಥಕ : objectionably, obnoxiously
ಅರ್ಥ : In an aggressive manner.
ಉದಾಹರಣೆ :
`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said.
The admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean.
In a defensive manner.
The general conviction that our side is in the right and acting defensively over what Russians call the German question and Americans the Berlin crisis.