Offence: alternatives and connections

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

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Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

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The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.

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The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.;…

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The quality of being unusual or novel.

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The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

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The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof.

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Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.

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An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

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Sleight.

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Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.

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Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the beh…

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(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation

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The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.

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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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of Doing

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Anger; wrath.

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The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

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A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.

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A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.

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The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of com…

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To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage.

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Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage.

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Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.

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Alt. of Offence

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Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.

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Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage.

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