Offenses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OFFENSES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• OFFENSE, (US) an offence, a violation of a moral or social code
• a breach of a law or rule; an illegal act
• a thing that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right or natural
• annoyance or resentment brought about by a perceived insult to or disregard for oneself
• the action of attacking someone or something
• the attacking team or players in a sport, especially in American football

Words related to OFFENSES

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How to use OFFENSES in a sentence

• But offenses of a less glaring kind are as hard to shut out as February cold from a heated house.
• For if you will forgive men their offenses, your heavenly FATHER will forgive you also your offenses.
• Some offenses are imperfectly described and others are entirely omitted, so that flagrant crimes may be committed with impunity.
• The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.
• Nevertheless, if you will examine the criminal statistics of India you will be surprised at the small number of arrests, trials and convictions for penal offenses.
• An act of general amnesty for all political offenses was then passed, and peace was restored to Germany.
• Much trouble is caused them by these officials, as within three leagues there are four alcaldes-mayor and their officers, who inflict serious penalties for light offenses.
• No person shall be persecuted for offenses of participation in war measures prior to the signing of the armistice.
• Until Germany has surrendered persons guilty of offenses against the laws and customs of war, the Allies have the right to retain selected German officers.
• The very offenses which she committed against the discipline of the school were of the sort which provoke a smile even on the stern countenance of authority itself.
• The policeman who looked after him to insure his attendance at the trial discovered that he had committed past offenses, for which the law can make him answer.
• Such was the mildness of his government that no one was punished at Rome for political offenses.
• But we were now on active service, and offenses which were trivial in England were looked upon, for this reason, in the light of serious crimes.
• I have somewhere read of a Persian king who beheaded his subjects for the most trivial or imaginary offenses.
• Indolence, insolence, disobedience of orders, and crime will be suppressed by forfeiture of pay, and such punishments as are provided for similar offenses by Army Regulations.
• These offenses he never forgave, and concluded that since I cared so little for him, he would not leave his friends and go up the Allegheny with me.
• In 1903, moreover, in Alabama, Negroes charged with petty offenses and sometimes with no offense at all were still sent to convict farms or turned over to contractors.
• And hence arises the doctrine, that Masonry will not take congnizance of religious or political offenses.
• The enormity of these offenses, and the great loss of property, should open the eyes of our citizens to their true situation.
• Frank found about fifteen Federal soldiers, and as many rebels, who were confined for various offenses, principally desertion.
• About this time General Emory was very much annoyed by petty offenses in the vicinity of the Post by civilians over whom he had no jurisdiction.
• This clause of the Constitution is practically void as regards all past offenses, as the disabilities of nearly all to whom it applied have been removed by Congress.
• This court was established for the trial of cases involving small amounts, and for the preliminary trials of persons charged with offenses against the laws of the State.
• The tendency, however, today in legal procedure is to hold the parents of such a boy liable for the offenses which may be committed.
• In case of libel, a person is not only liable to a private suit for damages, but may be indicted and tried as for other public offenses.

Similar words containing OFFENSE without suffix s

offense13 offenseless17

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