Damaging and Offensive

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Damaging adjective - Causing or capable of causing harm.

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

Nearby Words: damage, damaged

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

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Damaging and offensive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Damaging" instead an adjective "Offensive".

Nearby Words: offend, offence, offensively

These are at least as offensive as they are defensive, either damaging or in some way weakening attackers.

Source: Instant Armor
They start unable to learn spells, no offensive abilities, awful equipment and may or may not have a damaging magic wand.

Source: Magikarp Power
Always Need What You Gave Up: Hero gives up his powers in "Terms of Endearment" out of guilt for causing Foxxy to become an offensive racial stereotype as a result of damaging her brain by constantly using his X-ray vision on her.

Source: Western Animation / Drawn Together

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