"offend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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