behavior, conduct, doings, behaviour - manner of acting or conducting yourself

derision, ridicule - the act of deriding or treating with contempt

indelicacy - an impolite act or expression

insolence - an offensive disrespectful impudent act

affront, insult - a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"

presumption - a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming; "his presumption was intolerable"

rebuff, slight - a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

anger, ire, choler - a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance

crime, law-breaking - (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes"

breach of the peace, disorderly behavior, disorderly conduct, disturbance of the peace - any act of molesting or interrupting or hindering or disquieting or agitating or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled

false pretence, false pretense - (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation

indecent exposure, public nudity - vulgar and offensive nakedness in a public place

bearing false witness, lying under oath, perjury - criminal offense of making false statements under oath

sedition - an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government

team, squad - a cooperative unit

military operation, operation - activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign); "it was a joint operation of the navy and air force"

counteroffensive - a large scale offensive (more than a counterattack) undertaken by a defending force to seize the initiative from an attacking force

dirty war - an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims; "thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late 1970s"

push back, rollback - the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw