Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Offending
Offending adjective - Offending against or breaking a law or rule.
Both words in one sentence
- Or, they try to get help, leading to being taken away to a sometimes horrible foster home, or being brought back after the police believe the offending parents have been rehabilitated, resulting in some serious punishment on the child who got them in trouble.
Source: Morton's Fork - In Last Exile, the Guild (an organisation supposed to enforce The Laws and Customs of War) does nothing to help an army which is being attacked with "forbidden" tactics, because they favour the offending army.
Source: Cavalry Refusal - He has a completely necessary translator to help him get around, who must often perform Tactful Translation to keep Selleck's brash character from offending everyone immensely - but eventually it turns out that his manager was feigning a lack of English knowledge the whole time.
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