offend

v.

offend implies the causing of displeasure or resentment in another, intentionally or unintentionally, by wounding the person's feelings or by a breach of the person's sense of propriety she will be offended if she is not invited; affront implies open and deliberate disrespect or offense to affront someone's pride; insult implies an affront so insolent or contemptuously rude as to cause humiliation and resentment a book that insults the reader's intelligence; outrage implies an extreme offense against someone's sense of right, justice, propriety, etc. he was outraged by the offer of a bribe