Talk:offensive

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Need to note somehow that "the offensive" is always used with "the". What's the technical term? It's not just uncountable. -dmh 04:18, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

As in "The Germans launched an offensive in late December." ? DCDuring TALK 14:50, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Offencive?[edit]

Has anyone else ever heard the use of 'offencive'? My British English spellchecker is throwing it up as a suggestion for 'offensive', but I've never heard it used... Odd bloke 02:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

- Odd blocke: That is a bug in aspell.

aggressive[edit]

demonstrating aggression
I was warned that this would be seen as an offensive action 
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--Backinstadiums (talk) 16:52, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

IMO same as #2 "relating to an offense or attack". This is usually more of a military sense. Equinox 17:01, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]