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Princeton's WordNet

  1. offended, painedadjective

    hurt or upset

    "she looked offended"; "face had a pained and puzzled expression"

Wikipedia

  1. offended

    An insult is an expression or statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Insults may be intentional or accidental. An insult may be factual, but at the same time pejorative, such as the word "inbred".

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  1. offended

    Offended refers to feeling upset, annoyed, or insulted by something perceived as a disrespect or a disregard for one's beliefs, values, or feelings. It often happens when someone crosses socially or personally set boundaries, intentionally or unintentionally.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of offended in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of offended in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of offended in a Sentence

  1. Reinhard Marx:

    It is my great request to you not to carry out the award, i am convinced that this is the right step with consideration for those who obviously offended by the award, and especially with consideration for those affected.

  2. Ricky Gervais:

    I hope I haven't offended anyone. It's not my fault. I like a drink as much as the next man, unless the next man is Mel Gibson.

  3. Nenna Joiner:

    We have already started to work to make sure that people wouldn’t be offended, through high-end vibrators that don’t look like vibrators, and that don’t have disparaging detail on the boxes, that (the products) support any person regardless of gender, sex, or color.

  4. Steven Lowe:

    As a memorial to all veterans, it only seems to represent -- the cross -- Christian veterans, i'm not offended by the cross per se. What offends me is that it's on government land promoting government endorsement of religion, and it's not my religion.

  5. Katy Perry:

    I get really offended at the concept that what came out of the election was that — how do I say this? — impoverished people who are not of color needed more attention. I thought that was kind of crazy, that they might need more television, they have television. [Laughter] It just felt very strange to me. And I thought really, the people who really need to be spoken to are the 50 percent of the population that did not vote at all. Those are the people who need to be more engaged.

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