offensively   (TTS Sound)

The adv offensively has 3 senses

• offensively -- (in an unpleasantly offensive manner; "he smelled offensively unwashed")


• offensively, objectionably, obnoxiously -- (in an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences")


• offensively -- (in an aggressive manner; "`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said"; "the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean")