Offensive and Wretched

Offensive

Offensive adjective - Provoking or likely to provoke protest.
Usage example: insensitive, offensive remarks about the plight of the homeless

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

Nearby Words: offend, offence, offensively

Wretched

Wretched adjective - Extremely unsatisfactory.

Offensive and wretched are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Offensive" instead an adjective "Wretched".

Nearby Words: wretch, wretchedly

Both words in one sentence

  • Psychic Powers Eventually Ganta finds out that the Red Man (Wretched Egg) gave him a red stone that makes him a "Deadman", a human with the power to manipulate their own blood for offensive/defensive purposes called "Branches of Sin".
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