gross vs offensive

gross

adj
  • Causing disgust. 

  • Lacking refinement; not of high quality. 

  • Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality. 

  • Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh. 

  • Highly or conspicuously offensive. 

  • Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed. 

  • Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts. 

  • Difficult or impossible to see through. 

noun
  • The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net. 

  • Twelve dozen = 144. 

  • The bulk, the mass, the masses. 

verb
  • To earn money, not including expenses. 

offensive

adj
  • Causing offense; arousing a visceral reaction of disgust, anger, hatred, or indignation. 

  • Relating to an offense or attack, as opposed to defensive. 

  • Having to do with play directed at scoring. 

noun
  • An attack. 

  • The posture of attacking or being able to attack. 

How often have the words gross and offensive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )