Associations to the word «Offending»

Wiktionary

OFFENDING, verb. Present participle of offend
OFFENDING, noun. The act of committing an offence.

Dictionary definition

OFFENDING, adjective. Offending against or breaking a law or rule; "contracts offending against the statute were canceled".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky