பொருள் : In an unpleasantly offensive manner.
எடுத்துக்காட்டு :
He smelled offensively unwashed.
In a not unpleasantly offensive manner.
That wretched beast, the elephant, breathing inoffensively not a pace behind me.பொருள் : In an obnoxious manner.
எடுத்துக்காட்டு :
He said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences.
ஒத்த சொற்கள் : objectionably, obnoxiously
பொருள் : In an aggressive manner.
எடுத்துக்காட்டு :
`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said.
The admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean.
In a defensive manner.
The general conviction that our side is in the right and acting defensively over what Russians call the German question and Americans the Berlin crisis.