Difference between Offensive and Offending

OFFENSIVE vs OFFENDING: NOUN

The posture of attacking or being able to attack.
An attack.
An attitude or position of attack.
A physical or military attack or assault.
To be the attacking party; to initiate hostilities.
The state or posture of one who offends or makes attack; aggressive attitude; the act of the attacking party; -- opposed to defensive.
With the definite article: An aggressive attitude or course of operations; a posture of attack: as, to act on or assume the offensive.
The action of attacking an enemy

Causing anger or annoyance
For the purpose of attack rather than defense
Violating or tending to violate or offend against
Of an offensive substitute for inoffensive terminology
Morally offensive
Causing or able to cause nausea
Causing anger, displeasure, or resentment.
Disagreeable to the senses.
Making a physical or military attack.
Of, relating to, or designed for attack.
Of or relating to a team having possession of a ball or puck.
Unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying.
Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious
Substitute a harsher or distasteful term for a mild one
Making the first attack; assailant; aggressive; hence, used in attacking; -- opposed to defensive
A leaque that requires all the parties to it to make war together against any foe, and to defend one another if attacked.
Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, or hatred.
Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive.
Having to do with play directed at scoring.

Serving to offend, assail, or attack; used in attack: opposed to defensive: as, offensive weapons.
Consisting in or proceeding by attack; assailant; invading; aggressive: opposed to defensive.
Serving to injure; injurious.
Causing or giving offense; fitted or intended to offend or give displeasure; provocative of displeasure; insulting; annoying; displeasing: as, an offensive remark; offensive behavior.
Disgusting; disagreeable; giving pain or unpleasant sensations: as, an offensive smell.

Disgusting, Obnoxious, Abusive, Abhorrent, Horrid, Foul, Distasteful, Obscene, Assault, Vile, Objectionable, Insulting, Attacking, Attack, Offense

Desecrating, Harming, Abuse, Infraction, Offenses, Crime, Infringing, Infringement, Outraging, Angering, Insulting, Offenders, Violative, Offensive, Sinning

Disgusting, Obnoxious, Abusive, Abhorrent, Horrid, Foul, Distasteful, Obscene, Assault, Vile, Objectionable, Insulting, Attacking, Attack, Offense

Criminals, Criminality, Harming, Abuse, Offenses, Crime, Infringing, Infringement, Outraging, Angering, Insulting, Offenders, Violative, Offensive, Sinning

When a player on the offensive team grabs an offensive rebound and then immediately scores a field goal in the paint.
One is geared towards offensive security and the other is both offensive and defensive.
That is, some say the symbol is not offensive if not intended to be offensive.
Viper Offensive Line Coach Jonathan Himebauch has a strong history of getting the most out of his offensive lines.
Just as the fight against terrorism requires a mixture of offensive and defensive measures, election security also needs to include an offensive component.
We disallow them if they have been offensive elsewhere, or if their offensive teachings are available online.
If you do not feel it is offensive, what would make it offensive and why?
Never a gifted offensive player, Pippen eventually turned himself into an offensive weapon utilizing his unbelievable athleticism and length.
Apart from being offensive to an individual, the law requires that a reasonable person also finds it offensive.
The B Gap is the space, or split, between the offensive guards and offensive tackles on either side of the offensive line.

Participation in ECRIS provides the UK with the full offending history of UK national and the serious offending history of EU nationals.
Cognitive distortions about sex and sexual offending: a comparison of sex offending girls, delinquent girls, and girls from the community.
Suspension is plainly intended as a sanction for offending or continued offending against the road rules whose purpose is inter alia improving road safety.
This took her offending behaviour out of the worst category of fraudulent offending in which the sentencing judge placed it.
Sexual delinquency in Racine: Does early sex offending predict later sex offending in youth and young adulthood?
The other possibility for comparing types of offending is to compare offending to normal standards of behaviour.
Results indicate that routine activities display a stronger effect on current offending, while delinquent peers show an enduring impact on future offending.
In such circumstances, it is typical for the offending party to offer a justification for offending behavior.
However, these views were underpinned by an acknowledgement that such offending behaviour could be a precursor to further sexual offending.
For this purpose we use our most robust effect of offending, violent offending, as a mediating variable.

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