Offensive and Poor

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

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

Nearby Words: offend, offence, offensively

Poor adjective - Lacking money or material possessions.

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Offensive and poor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Offensive" instead an adjective "Poor".

Nearby Words: poorly, poorness

For example, as a part of "geek culture", it's been common to see gamers with poor manners, hygiene and social skills do some uncomfortable, offensive, or annoying things.

Source: Useful Notes / Fighting Game Community
The impact duplicates the effect of the Meteor spell (an epic-level spell), making it a very good roll to get on an offensive spell misfire but a very poor one if you were trying to buff yourself.

Source: Drop the Cow
However, when she complains about being poor, Benji points out that she's not really that poor, and that saying so is offensive to actual poor people.

Source: Film / Frances Ha

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