offensively

Adverb

• in an aggressive manner
  • `In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said
    
  • the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean
    

• in an obnoxious manner
  • he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences
    

• in an unpleasantly offensive manner
  • he smelled offensively unwashed
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  objectionably , obnoxiously
• Antonyms: 
  defensively , inoffensively