| Adv. | 1. | offensively - in an unpleasantly offensive manner; "he smelled offensively unwashed" Antonyms: inoffensively - in a not unpleasantly offensive manner; "that wretched beast, the elephant, breathing inoffensively not a pace behind me" |
| 2. | offensively - in an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences" Synonyms: objectionably, obnoxiously | |
| 3. | offensively - in an aggressive manner; "`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said"; "the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean" Antonyms: defensively - in a defensive manner; "the general conviction that our side is in the right and acting defensively over what Russians call the German question and Americans the Berlin crisis" |