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A shopkeeper sounded more offensive (7)

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I believe the answer is:

grosser

'more offensive' is the definition.
('gross' can be similar in meaning to 'offensive')

'a shopkeeper sounded' is the wordplay.
'a shopkeeper' becomes 'grocer' (I've seen this before).
'sounded' shows a homophone (sound like).
'grocer' is a homophone of 'GROSSER'.

(Other definitions for grosser that I've seen before include "More corpulent" , "more vulgar" .)

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