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Adverb: offensively  u'fen-siv-lee
  1. In an unpleasantly offensive manner
    "he smelled offensively unwashed"
     
  2. In an obnoxious manner
    "he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences";
    - objectionably, obnoxiously
     
  3. Aggressively
    "'In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said"; "the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean"

Antonym: defensively, inoffensively