Offend
Offend verb - To fail to keep.
Usage example: keeping company without a chaperone present definitely would have offended the social standards of the day
Obey
Common collocations
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Obey and Offend. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/offend/obey
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