OFFENSIVE ACTIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does offensive activity mean? 

• OFFENSIVE ACTIVITY (noun)
  The noun OFFENSIVE ACTIVITY has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: OFFENSIVE ACTIVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OFFENSIVE ACTIVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

discourtesy; offence; offense; offensive activity

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))