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What is another word for causing offense?

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Verb
Present participle for to be offensive
offending
affronting
aggravating
agitating
irking
outraging
riling
aggrieving
angering
annoying
bugging
disgruntling
displeasing
exasperating
galling
irritating
nettling
piquing
provoking
rattling
ruffling
upsetting
vexing
antagonisingUK
antagonizingUS
disturbing
fretting
miffing
peeving
shocking
putting someone's nose out of joint
distressing
needling
insulting
disobliging
hurting
hurting somebody's feelings
turning off
ticking off
wounding
stinging
paining
troubling
mortifying
horrifying
slighting
disquieting
jarring
rubbing up the wrong way
cutting to the quick
getting to
dissing
hacking off
giving offence to
spiting
snubbing
disrespecting
humiliating
putting your back up
dismaying
rankling with
slurring
zinging
putting out
treading on someone's toes
injuring
embarrassing
giving offence
getting your goat
narking
putting down
disconcerting
rubbing the wrong way
harassing
giving someone grief
discomposing
perturbing
unnerving
discomforting
bothering
saddening
ailing
agonizingUS
disgusting
perplexing
grieving
plaguing
worrying
devastating
depressing
discommoding
discombobulating
pestering
repulsing
chafing
sickening
dogging
repelling
excruciating
afflicting
nauseating
fazing
bleeding
agonisingUK
mourning
burning up
causing sorrow
pushing the buttons of
discomfiting
thumbing nose at
eating at
lambasting
causing suffering
making unhappy
nagging at
causing anguish
tormenting
getting
traumatizingUS
dumping on
traumatisingUK
shaking up
inflicting trauma
stressing
knocking for six
deeply upsetting
overwhelming
cutting
slapping
making miserable
hurting the feelings of
crucifying
doing in
causing suffering to
gnawing at
anguishing
torturing
tearing to pieces
alarming
unsettling
flustering
distempering
inconveniencing
keying up
freaking out
shaking
turning
flipping
rocking the boat
stirring up
throwing
laying up
frazzling
frightening
pothering
distracting
alaruming
confounding
bumming out
hagriding
incapacitating
egging on
throwing off balance
spooking
bewildering
unhinging
cramping
weirding out
debilitating
discountenancing
getting someone
making a scene
making waves
getting on your wick
turning on
flipping out
giving a hard time
flurrying
flooring
indisposing
picking on
disappointing
crazing
undoing
getting at
winding up
concerning
hassling
derailing
firing up
getting across
fussing
“There is an overt advocation of laziness here that should cause offense to everyone.”
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