OFFENSIVE ACTIVITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others

Synonyms:

discourtesy; offence; offense; offensive activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("offensive activity" is a kind of...):

behavior; behaviour; conduct; doings (manner of acting or controlling yourself)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "offensive activity"):

derision; ridicule (the act of deriding or treating with contempt)

indelicacy (an impolite act or expression)

insolence (an offensive disrespectful impudent act)

affront; insult (a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect)

presumption (a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming)

rebuff; slight (a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval))