English > offensive activity: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | A lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others. |
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| Synonyms | discourtesy, offense, offence |
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| Narrower | derision, ridicule | The act of deriding or treating with contempt / contempt |
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| indelicacy | An impolite act or expression |
| insolence | An offensive disrespectful impudent act |
| insult, affront | 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 / anger or disapproval) |
| Broader | behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings | manner of acting or controlling yourself |
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| Spanish | atentado, descortesía, injuria, ofensa |
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| Catalan | atemptat, descortesia, injúria, ofensa |
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