adjective
- causing displeasure, anger, or resentment
- guilty of a crime or wrongdoing
verb
- present participle of offend: causing someone to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful
Examples
- The offending comment was quickly deleted from the website.
- Police arrested the offending driver after the hit-and-run accident.
- She removed the offending paragraph from her essay.
- The offending party must pay damages to the victim.
- He was offending his neighbors with loud music every night.
- The comedian kept offending audience members with inappropriate jokes.
- They identified the offending software that was causing the computer crashes.