The antonyms for the phrase "were offensive" include words like pleasant, edifying, delightful, enjoyable, agreeable, charming, and pleasing. If something or someone is offensive, they cause distress, discomfort, or annoyance; whereas, if they are pleasant or delightful, they bring joy, happiness, and amusement. Edifying refers to something that is informative, enlightening, or instructive, and agreeable means that it is congenial, amenable or cordial. When something is charming, it is appealing or attractive, and when it is pleasing, it satisfies, pleases or gratifies one's senses. Overall, these antonyms highlight positive qualities in contrast to the negative aspect of being offensive.

What are the antonyms for Were offensive?

• v.

  • stink
  • be excellent
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  • be good
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  • perfume
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Famous quotes with Were offensive

• It seemed odd to Joel that nature did not reflect so solemn an event: flowers of cotton-boll clouds within a sky as scandalously blue as kitten-eyes were offensive to their sweet disrespect.

  Truman Capote
• Sentiment was the easy thing. But logic reminded a man that some people insisted on living their neighbor’s lives, that some people were offensive. There were people with moral codes they clung to and lived by, people who worshiped in what they held to be the only orthodox way, people who clung to some idea—some rock on which their lives rested. Well and good. But if they tried to inflict these reforms on their neighbors, patience could only go so far, and the tolerance of fanaticism lasts just so long.

  Algis Budrys

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