But the fun starts when conservatives stop playing defense and go on offense.
Of how incredibly petty the offense can be and how insanely disproportionate the retaliation can be.
Any critique may be treated as a security issue or an offense against the faith.
His only offense was a moral one, though none of his critics could possibly know the terms and nuances of his marriage.
offense V.a: Illegal possession or use of drugs and/or alcohol and/or drug paraphernalia.
For there is a play even with most serious things that has in it no offense.
I had tasted blood of my master's enemies; also Kokomo was afraid, and that is an offense to me.
“Not meaning any offense, it was something like that,” said Sucatash, candidly.
“The excuse more than condones the offense,” continued the other.
"I've said nothing about any offense," he declared, in a hard, deliberate voice.
late 14c., "hurt, harm, injury, pain," from Old French ofense "offense, insult, wrong" (13c.) and directly from Latin offensa "an offense, injury, affront, crime," literally "a striking against," noun use of fem. past participle of offendere (see offend). Meaning "action of attacking" and "feeling of being hurt" are both first recorded c.1400. Sense of "breach of the law, transgression" is first recorded late 14c. Sporting sense first recorded 1894.
