Usually means: In a manner causing displeasure, attack.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word offensively:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. offensively: Merriam-Webster
  2. offensively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. offensively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. offensively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Offensively, offensively: Wordnik
  6. offensively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. offensively: Wiktionary
  8. offensively: Dictionary.com
  9. offensively: Rhymezone
  10. offensively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. offensively: FreeDictionary.org
  12. offensively: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. offensively: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. offensively: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. offensively: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (offensively)

▸ adverb:  In an offensive manner.

Similar:
objectionably, obnoxiously, offencively, counteroffensively, offendedly, affrontively, assaultively, defensively, inoffensively, aggressively, more...

Opposite:
inoffensively, harmlessly, innocuously

Phrases:
offensively smelly, offensively bold, offensively loud, outdated offensively, offensively clumsy, more...

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Similar:
objectionably, obnoxiously, offencively, counteroffensively, offendedly, affrontively, assaultively, defensively, inoffensively, aggressively, more...

Opposite:
inoffensively, harmlessly, innocuously

Phrases:
offensively smelly, offensively bold, offensively loud, outdated offensively, offensively clumsy, more...



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