offensively

adverb

1. 1

   in an aggressive manner

   `In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said

   the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean

2. 2

   in an obnoxious manner

   he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences

3. 3

   in an unpleasantly offensive manner

   he smelled offensively unwashed