Offensive and Taunting

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

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

Nearby Words: offend, offence, offensively

Taunting adjective - Abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule.

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Offensive and taunting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Offensive" instead an adjective "Taunting".

Nearby Words: taunt, taunted, tauntingly

Taunting in Art of Fighting reduces the special move gauge, which leaves many characters without an offensive arsenal.

Source: Break Meter
It's not as benign as most examples of this trope, though, as she's openly taunting their religion (Islam finds female skin exposure offensive), and because she's also doing it as a threat.

Source: Literature / Ender's Shadow
But, with fatal foolishness, Arachne went the extra step of taunting Athena by including in her tapestry design an offensive caricature of her father, Zeus.

Source: Too Quirky to Lose

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