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offensively
adverb
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What it means

  1. adverb in an aggressive manner
    “`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said”
  2. adverb in an obnoxious manner
    “he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences”
  3. adverb in an unpleasantly offensive manner
    “he smelled offensively unwashed”