offending article

Frequency: 6.02.5 per million words

An article that causes anger, upset, or offense.

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Examples (10)

  • The newspaper apologized for the offending article in its latest edition.
  • Many readers wrote letters expressing their anger about the offending article.
  • The editor made the difficult decision to retract the offending article immediately.
  • There was a significant public outcry over the highly controversial and offending article.
  • She demanded a full correction and apology for the factual errors in the offending article.
  • The website administrators promptly removed the offending article after receiving numerous complaints.
  • Legal action was threatened against the publisher due to the defamatory nature of the offending article.
  • The company faced severe backlash from consumers because of the politically incorrect offending article.
  • They tried to defend the publication of the offending article, but public opinion was against them.
  • Nobody anticipated such a strong negative reaction to what they considered a harmless offending article.