Synonyms for offended
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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

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1. Sir Thomas More:

   This hath not offended the king.

2. Robert C. Morlino:

   People today have been taught to be offended, people live to be offended. That’s why they need a ‘safe space’ and a ‘cry closet,’ and what they mean by that seems to be a space where they can be safe from hearing the voice of reason and truth, if you speak the truth, you might not be safe.

3. Robert Burns:

   The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended.

4. Adam Carolla:

   Nothing kills comedy quite like people who are constantly offended, the Post’s impossible to be funny if we’re not allowed to poke fun at each other and that’s what’s happening with a new generation of people who seem to be offended for a living.

5. Oriana Fallaci:

   Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.