"offend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

offend verbo

offend + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 21
offend people • offend one's sensibilities • offend one's sense • offend God • offend others • ...
1. offend people = uraź ludzi offend people
2. offend viewers = uraź widzów offend viewers
3. offend audiences = uraź publiczności offend audiences
4. offend voters = uraź wyborców offend voters
5. offend readers = uraź czytelników offend readers
  • The pro-fascist tone in parts of Waugh in Abyssinia offended readers and critics, and prevented its publication in America.
  • Gollancz feared the second half would offend readers and added a disculpatory preface to the book while Orwell was in Spain.
  • Their bread and butter is reporting local events and local people and in a small community they aren't out to offend readers or cause major upset through distortion or misrepresentation.
  • For all its liberties, "The Accidental Pope" is unlikely to offend Catholic readers.
  • The CHRC's ruling said of the article that, "the writing is polemical, colourful and emphatic, and was obviously calculated to excite discussion and even offend certain readers, Muslim and non-Muslim alike."
  • I shall offend readers by saying that it was a good speech.
  • The American publisher requested their version be a very close shot of the side of the breast, so the body part in question wouldn't be readily identifiable, and therefore would not offend readers or passersby in the bookstore.
  • Not only would such exposés offend liberal readers who are not black or homosexual; many blacks and homosexuals are customers of liberal newspapers, and no business wants to offend a customer.
  • Investigative journalism is costly and many newspapers do not want to offend readers.
  • A word of caution: Certain language may offend sensitive readers, but we are leaving the letter intact to increase the chance that someone might recognize the writer's syntax.
6. offend purists = uraź purystów offend purists
7. offend millions = uraź miliony offend millions
(3) God, belief
Kolokacji: 2
(4) others, morality
Kolokacji: 2
(6) China, Beijing
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + offend
Kolokacji: 6
want to offend • avoid offending • mean to offend • risk offending • fear offending • ...
offend + preposición
Kolokacji: 10
offended by • offend in • offended at • offend with • offend against • ...
offend + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 16
deeply offended • personally offended • easily offended • mortally offended • greatly offended • ...

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