He who conforms deserves well; he that offends deserves ill.
The terms stand for a step of discernment and judgment beyond these, and denote the ethical reality of good-desert or ill-desert for the moral agent who conforms to rightness, or offends against its claims.
I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me; Lend me thy handkerchief.
His rhetoricoffends a taste that can tolerate and applaud verbose banalities, with little trace of redeeming art.
His studied phrase, his epigrammatic point seem often out of place; his occasionally tinsel rhetoric sometimes offends a modern taste.
To every one of us, whatever our sphere in life, the saying comes home that one who offends not in word is indeed a perfect man.
Therefore he who deliberately offends against any one of its enactments, however diligently he may keep all the rest, is guilty of offending against the whole.
Whatever way we look at this incident it offends eye and taste.
Above all, in our days, when the desire for good government is intense, and none believe themselves too weak to accomplish what they wish, unrestrained truth on this subject offends many sincere friends of justice and humanity.
But it is of the dress of our women that we are compelled to testify, and it can hardly be denied that at the present moment it offends grievously in three particulars.
However agreeable a man may be in society, if he offends or disgusts by his table traits, he will soon be scouted from it, and justly so.
The former offends by his negligence and dirt, and the latter by his finery and perfumery.
A man who will annoy or insult a woman in the street, lowers himself to a brute, no matter whether he offends by look, word, or gesture.
It offends in that it takes away the confidence of nation in nation.
Any one, therefore, who attempts to appropriate this power, offends against the reverence which he owes the king.
But, in either case, he offends most grievously against the royal personage, as the crown prince could not be allowed to be his "testing rag.
British jurymen and husbands, let us hail this verdict proper: If a British wife offends you, Britons, you’ve a right to whop her.
The rich man’s painted windows Hide the concerts of the quality; The poor can but share A crack’d fiddle in the air, Which offends all sound morality.
The fiery hatred of evil and evil men which burns in the last strophe offends many and startles more.
The metaphor mingles figures and offends purists, but it fits closer to fact than the weakening of it which fits the rules of composition.
And whatever offends one of these little ones cannot be right in the eyes of Him who loved them so well.
They represent the unwritten law, the traditions of the commune, the duties of all to all: whosoever offends against these, sins against the dead.
The student who consciously or unconsciously offends class-sentiment will suddenly find himself isolated,--condemned to absolute solitude.
Though all the vulgar hate a foreign face, It more offends weak eyes and homely age, Dalica most, who thus her aim pursued.
Thus, when a poor man offends a rich man, and when a rich man offends a poor man, the average of the fines assessed equals approximately the fine assessed for injuries within the middle class.
When it is remembered that Scripture affirms the man who offends not in word is a "perfect man," the author feels that he has aimed at a laudable object in writing this book.
Beware of flattery--'tis a flowery weed Which oft offends the very idol vice Whose shrine it would perfume.
Dost thou not remember those words with which thine Ethics treats in full of the three dispositions that Heaven abides not; in continence, malice, and mad bestiality, and how incontinence less offends God, and incurs less blame?
The lack of objective reality offends us and our taste, habituated as we are to the reality of life transported to artistic representations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
