| offense | | |
| n. (act) | 1. discourtesy, offence, offense, offensive activity | a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others. |
| ~ behavior, conduct, doings, behaviour | manner of acting or controlling yourself. |
| ~ derision, ridicule | the act of deriding or treating with contempt. |
| ~ indelicacy | an impolite act or expression. |
| ~ insolence | an offensive disrespectful impudent act. |
| ~ affront, insult | a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect.; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" |
| ~ presumption | a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming.; "his presumption was intolerable" |
| ~ rebuff, slight | a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval). |
| n. (feeling) | 2. offence, offense, umbrage | a feeling of anger caused by being offended.; "he took offence at my question" |
| ~ anger, ire, choler | a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance. |
| n. (act) | 3. crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offence, offense | (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.; "a long record of crimes" |
| ~ evildoing, transgression | the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle.; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father" |
| ~ barratry | the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels. |
| ~ capital offense | a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate. |
| ~ cybercrime | crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs. |
| ~ felony | a serious crime (such as murder or arson). |
| ~ forgery | criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud. |
| ~ fraud | intentional deception resulting in injury to another person. |
| ~ had crime | (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran.; "Had crimes include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and adultery" |
| ~ highjack, hijack | seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination. |
| ~ mayhem | the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person. |
| ~ infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation, infringement | a crime less serious than a felony. |
| ~ perpetration, committal, commission | the act of committing a crime. |
| ~ attempt, attack | the act of attacking.; "attacks on women increased last year"; "they made an attempt on his life" |
| ~ tazir crime | (Islam) minor crimes committed by Muslims; crimes that are not mentioned in the Koran so judges are free to punish the offender in any appropriate way.; "in some Islamic nations Tazir crimes are set by legislation" |
| ~ regulatory offence, regulatory offense, statutory offence, statutory offense | crimes created by statutes and not by common law. |
| ~ thuggery | violent or brutal acts as of thugs. |
| ~ high treason, lese majesty, treason | a crime that undermines the offender's government. |
| ~ vice crime | a vice that is illegal. |
| ~ victimless crime | an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims.; "he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime" |
| ~ war crime | a crime committed in wartime; violation of rules of war. |
| ~ criminal law | the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment. |
| ~ abduct, kidnap, nobble, snatch | take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom.; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped" |
| ~ shanghai, impress | take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship.; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged" |
| ~ commandeer, highjack, hijack, pirate | take arbitrarily or by force.; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami" |
| ~ skyjack | subject an aircraft to air piracy.; "the plane was skyjacked to Uzbekistan" |
| ~ carjack | take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it.; "My car was carjacked last night!" |
| ~ extort | obtain through intimidation. |
| ~ blackmail | obtain through threats. |
| ~ scalp | sell illegally, as on the black market. |
| ~ bootleg | sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol.; "They were bootlegging whiskey" |
| ~ black market, run | deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor. |
| ~ fob off, foist off, palm off | sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive. |
| ~ push | sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs).; "The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs" |
| ~ black marketeer | deal on the black market. |
| ~ pyramid | use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal. |
| ~ ransom, redeem | exchange or buy back for money; under threat. |
| ~ traffic | deal illegally.; "traffic drugs" |
| ~ rustle, lift | take illegally.; "rustle cattle" |
| ~ shoplift | steal in a store. |
| ~ stick up, hold up | rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat. |
| ~ mug | rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence.; "I was mugged in the streets of New York last night" |
| ~ pirate | copy illegally; of published material. |
| ~ plagiarise, plagiarize, lift | take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property. |
| ~ crib | take unauthorized (intellectual material). |
| ~ bribe, grease one's palms, buy, corrupt | make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence.; "This judge can be bought" |
| ~ rake off | take money from an illegal transaction. |
| ~ buy off, pay off | pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor. |
| ~ loot, plunder | take illegally; of intellectual property.; "This writer plundered from famous authors" |
| ~ smuggle | import or export without paying customs duties.; "She smuggled cigarettes across the border" |
| ~ kick back | pay a kickback; make an illegal payment. |
| n. (group) | 4. offence, offense | the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score. |
| ~ team, squad | a cooperative unit (especially in sports). |
| n. (act) | 5. offence, offense, offensive | the action of attacking an enemy. |
| ~ military operation, operation | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign).; "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force" |
| ~ counteroffensive | a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force. |
| ~ dirty war | an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims.; "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s" |
| ~ push back, rollback | the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw. |
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