English > offensive activity: 1 sense > noun 1, actMeaning | 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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