Dig
Dig noun - An act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings.
Usage example: got in a couple of digs about lawyers at my friend's expense
Nearby Words: digging, digged
Offense
Offense noun - An act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings.
Usage example: a diplomat never deliberately gives offense
Both words in one sentence
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Present Company Excluded:Jonathan: And when those damn yanks go to sleep- no offense-Rick: None taken.Jon: - we'll dig our way up and steal that book right out from under them.Rick: Are you sure you can find this secret compartment thing?
Source: Film / The Mummy (1999) -
The local Sergeant Rock is an Affably Evil former SS Captain turned Sergeant who takes offense to accusations of perpetrating atrocities in concentration camps and says they merely made undesirables dig a ditch, lined them up and shot them.
Source: Legion of Lost Souls -
The local Sergeant Rock is an Affably Evil former SS Captain turned Sergeant who takes offense to accusations of perpetrating atrocities in concentration camps (he was on the Eastern front) and says they merely made undesirables dig a ditch, lined them up and shot them.
Source: Comicbook / Fury: My War Gone By
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