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say it: uh-FEN-siv-lee
offensively is an adverb meaning "in an unpleasantly offensive manner". It carries 3 recorded senses.
in an obnoxious manner
“he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences”
in an aggressive manner
“`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said”
“the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for offensively come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.