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UNOFFENDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unoffending mean?
• UNOFFENDING (adjective)
The adjective UNOFFENDING has 2 senses:
1. not offending
2. not causing anger or annoyance
Familiarity information: UNOFFENDING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not offending
Context example:
an unoffending motorist should not have been stopped
Antonym:
offending (offending against or breaking a law or rule)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not causing anger or annoyance
Synonyms:
inoffensive; unoffending
Context example:
inoffensive behavior
Similar:
offenceless; offenseless (incapable of offending or attacking)
Attribute:
distastefulness; odiousness; offensiveness (the quality of being offensive)
Context examples
He is estranged from our eldest son and daughter, he has no pride in his twins, he looks with an eye of coldness even on the unoffending stranger who last became a member of our circle.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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