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 Translation for 'to offend sb' from English to Spanish
blazear a algn [cent.] [Panamá] [col.]to offend sb.
herir a algn [espiritualmente]to offend sb. [hurt emotionally]
ofender a algnto offend sb. [insult]
ultrajar a algnto offend sb. [insult]
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captar la atención y el interés de algn/algo con algn/algo [locución] to catch the attention and interest of sb./sth. with sb./sth. [idiom]
unverified relacionar algn/algo con algn/algoto associate sb./sth. with sb./sth.
confrontar a-algn/algo con algn/algoto confront sb./sth. with sb./sth.
recordar a algn a algn/algo [por asociación, parecido]to remind sb. of sb./sth.
prometer a algn en matrimonio a algnto betroth sb. to sb. [dated]
presentar algn a algnto introduce sb. to sb.
fastidiar a algn [molestar]to annoy sb.
alelar a algnto bewilder sb.
incumbir a algnto concern sb.
exhortar a algnto exhort sb.
adoctrinar a algnto indoctrinate sb.
chulear a-algn [molestar] [cent.] [El Salvador] [col.]to annoy sb.
unverified hacer huevos [ayudarle a alguien] [cent.] [Guatemala] [col.]to help sb.
cascar a algn [golpear a alguien] [sur.] [Colombia] [col.]to hit sb.
acoger a-algn [recibir]to receive sb.
acoger a-algnto welcome sb.
pegar un tubazo a algn [Argentina] [col.]to ring sb.
chifear a algn [cent.] [Panamá] [col.]to ignore sb.
chinchar a algn [molestar a alguien] [esp.] [Sevilla] [col.]to bother sb.
subvenir a algnto aid sb.
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Usage Examples English
  • She managed to offend neither to a large extent, although she clamped down on Catholics towards the end of her reign as war with Catholic Spain loomed.
  • Politeness is the practical application of good manners or etiquette so as not to offend others.
  • The Duke of Calabria, before entering the war against the Papal State, declared that he was going not to offend the Holy See, but only to defend himself and free the kingdom from the snares of the rebels and declared that he was and always would be an obedient son of the Pontiff and of the Apostolic See.
  • In a widely publicized incident on July 22, 1993, Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman in the Senate and the only black Senator at the time, reported that Helms deliberately sought to offend her by singing "Dixie" in her presence.
  • If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend.

  • God said: "Let the serpent who was the first to offend by 'evil tongue' inflict punishment on those who were guilty of the same sin and did not profit by the serpent's example".
  • So while salmonella contamination is a reason against eating the fish, its good taste and the desire not to offend the host are reasons in favor of eating it.
  • He later apologised for his remark, saying it was not intended to offend.
  • He says that inclusion of explicit clauses about the inadmissibility of acquisition of territory by war and requiring respect of territorial integrity and sovereignty of a state demonstrates that the Council does not intend to offend peremptory norms in these specific ways.
  • The Queen stated that O'Malley had "departeth with great thankfulness and with many more earnest promises that she will, as long as she lives, continue a dutiful subject, yea and will employ all her power to offend and prosecute any offender against Us".

  • By 1859 the term was clearly used to offend, in an attack on abolitionist John Brown.
  • ABC managing director Mark Scott said the site was not designed to offend anyone, but instead have children think about environmental issues.
  • In order not to offend sensibilities of their traditional 911 customers by openly challenging them with a Works 928GTR offering, Porsche asked Max Moritz Racing, their longtime private racing partner from nearby Reutlingen to enter a 928GTR Cup as a 'semi-works' car.
  • The Anti-Defamation League understood that the portrayed symbol was not intended to offend and acknowledged the sensitivity that Nintendo showed by removing the product.
  • The terms of the oath were deliberately designed to offend the consciences of the Presbyterian Covenanters.

  • At the time of its release, the Pythons confessed their aim was to offend "absolutely everyone", adding "It is guaranteed to offend".
  • Doyle furthered that her statements were never enough to offend others and the harshest criticism that could be bestowed upon her was that she was boring.
  • as one is effectively downgrading the matter concerned to its former lower status, and the euphemism becomes dominant, due to a wish not to offend; see euphemism treadmill.
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