Adverb: offensively u'fen-siv-lee
- In an unpleasantly offensive manner
"he smelled offensively unwashed"
- In an obnoxious or offensive manner
"he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences";
- objectionably, obnoxiously
- Aggressively
"‘In this crisis, we must act offensively,’ the President said"; "the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean"
Antonym: defensively, inoffensively