Cutting and Offensive

Cutting

Cutting adjective - Causing intense discomfort to one's skin.

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Offensive and cutting are semantically related In some cases you can use "Offensive" instead an adjective "Cutting".

Nearby Words: cut, cutter

Offensive adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.

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Cutting and offensive are semantically related in disrespectful topic. Sometimes you can use "Cutting" instead an adjective "Offensive".

Nearby Words: offend, offence, offensively

distinctive	distinctive cutting	distinctive offensive
real	real cutting	real offensive
large	large cutting	large offensive
huge	huge cutting	huge offensive
Other adjectives: little, bad, quick, rapid.

This refers to the urban legend that the offensive V-sign came from the French cutting off the fingers of captured English longbowmen.

Source: V Sign
Bowdlerise: Bowdlerisation ruined the "Summarize Proust" sketch by cutting out the marginally offensive part of a punchline (future versions changed it to a shoddily spliced version which simply cut the offending word instead of the whole exchange):MC: What are your hobbies, outside summarizing?

Source: Series / Monty Python's Flying Circus
Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: The cutting edge of Kerbal laser weaponry is basically about where 21st century Earth is; it can reliably shoot down a missile but as an offensive weapon it's pretty worthless.

Source: Fan Fic / The Next Frontier

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