Offend and Trouble

Offend

Offend verb - To cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in.

Usage example: the visitor unintentionally offended his hosts terribly by failing to compliment them on the elaborately prepared meal

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Trouble and offend are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trouble" instead a verb "Offend".

Trouble verb - To experience concern or anxiety.

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Offend and trouble are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Offend" instead a verb "Trouble".

person	offend person	trouble person
people	offend people	trouble people
god	offend god	trouble god
anyone	offend anyone	trouble anyone
Other words: everyone, friends, thee.

Aunt Agatha is the one person in the world I daren't offend, and it always happens that everyone she sends to me with letters of introduction gets into trouble of some sort.

Source: Badly Battered Babysitter
Can't Get In Trouble For Nuthin': The whole point of the racist show, was for Delacroix's to offend people and get fired from his job, which he hated.

Source: Film / Bamboozled
In any case, rather than cause trouble for other people, they do their job by drawing animosity towards themselves and they are usually incredibly amicable; there is almost nothing you can say that will genuinely offend them.

Source: Resident Freak

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