Offensive and Pitiful

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

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

Nearby Words: offend, offence, offensively

Pitiful adjective - Deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy).

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Offensive and pitiful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Offensive" instead an adjective "Pitiful".

Nearby Words: pity, pitiless, pitiable, piteous, pitifully

The Medic is also pitiful in offensive and defensive capabilities, but the entire game is said to revolve around his abilities.

Source: Weak, but Skilled
This was found to be offensive by many, so the insult was changed to "pitiful".

Source: Orwellian Retcon
The Zeus in Global Offensive, which usually gets used as a humiliation weapon rather than for tactical purposes due to its pitiful range and single use nature.

Source: Video Game / Counter-Strike

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