offensive activity

Other forms: offensive activities

Definitions of offensive activity
  1. noun
    a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others
    synonyms: discourtesy, offence, offense
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    derision, ridicule
    the act of deriding or treating with contempt
    indelicacy
    an impolite act or expression
    insolence
    an offensive disrespectful impudent act
    affront, insult
    a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
    presumption
    a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming
    rebuff, slight
    a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
    mock
    the act of mocking or ridiculing
    indignity
    an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem
    outrage, scandalisation, scandalization
    the act of scandalizing
    cold shoulder, cut, snub
    a refusal to recognize someone you know
    silent treatment
    an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know
    type of:
    behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings
    manner of acting or controlling yourself
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