Synonyms for offended
of·fend·ed

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1. offended, painedadjective

   hurt or upset

   "she looked offended"; "face had a pained and puzzled expression"

   Synonyms:
   pained

   Antonyms:
   pleased

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1. List of paraphrases for "offended":

   insulted, affronted, offend, shocked, trodden

How to pronounce offended?

How to say offended in sign language?

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How to use offended in a sentence?

1. Selahattin Demirtas:

   When the prosecutors are calling former chief of the General Staff of Turkey and hundreds of army generals as "terrorists" nobody is not offended but when I call him (current chief of General Staff) corporal he gets offended. (Referring to the detentions of many army generals for the alleged "Sledgehammer" coup plot trial; On the reaction for calling Necdet Özel (chief of GS) as a "only a corporal in our eyes" for his comments about education in Kurdish language.)

2. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio:

   I'm sure people are offended. We hope people are offended by that. That's not what the United States is about.

3. Robertson Davies:

   Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

4. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin:

   I guarantee you somewhere in Kentucky today a child was sexually assaulted that was left at home because there was nobody there to watch them, i guarantee you somewhere today a child was physically harmed or ingested poison because they were home alone because a single parent did n’t have any money to take care of them. I ’m offended by the idea that people so cavalierly and so flippantly disregarded what’s truly best for children.

5. Clyde Parry:

   What if it were your family member that needed the services and the closest officer to your emergency was tied up on his fictitious call? The Coral Springs Police Department takes this seriously. I'm personally offended by the waste of our resources.