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  • noun The state or quality of being offended.

Etymologies

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offended +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • anonymous from Miami: It's probably better that you stop reading the blog, from your writing style it seems you either have or are going to develop serious ulcers if you maintain your level "offendedness".

    The Secret to Success: Crawling Before You Can Walk BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • "Not precisely one of mine," said Raven, suppressing offendedness.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • The only factual statement you can draw is that, whatever their level of offendedness or lack thereof, it was not enough for them to endorse Obama over Clinton.

    Hillary Gets Endorsement Of Newspaper Editorial Board That Heard R.F.K. Assassination Remarks 2009

  • And just as a polite dinner party guest tries to avoid offending the other guests, a polite dinner guest also tries to avoid causing a scene by expressing their offendedness.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Looking for Cute Tarot Deck To Use for Calling Randomly on Students: 2007

  • She sat with a certain obstinate offendedness under the awning of the boat.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • She could only guess how he must have felt, seeing how he dared not presume himself upon her, lest any - including herself, for all he knew - should object with a most self-righteous, vainglorious, and presumptuous offendedness such as nearly all of humanity was so fond of imitating and out-doing one-another in feigning.

    Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Roland Jon Cheney

  • Professor Narbo had been offended, and great is the offendedness of a Full Professor, particularly when he is a Heidelberg Ph.D. and parts his hair all the way down the back.

    Tutors' Lane 1937

  • I see your offendedness and raise you a an utterly pissed off.

    Pharyngula 2010

  • But if we are misunderstood or even reviled let's not go after short-lived and half-hearted affirmation by announcing our offendedness for the world to hear.

    Justin Taylor 2010

  • To think that you can accurately quantify the relative offendedness that two groups of people should (or do) feel in response to these issues displays, in my opinion, quite a bit of hubris.

    Royals Review 2009

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