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Innocuous   /ɪnˈɑkjuəs/   Listen
Innocuous

adjective
1.
Not injurious to physical or mental health.
2.
Not causing disapproval.  Synonym: unobjectionable.  "Confined himself to innocuous generalities" , "Unobjectionable behavior"
3.
Lacking intent or capacity to injure.  Synonym: innocent.





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"Innocuous" Quotes from Famous Books



... It's a flimsy thing, composed of absorbent plastic and gooed up with a little unpolymerized resin, weighing about fifty grams. It is apparently floating harmlessly in space, just beyond the orbit of Uranus, looking as innocuous as a rag can look. But it is moving sunward at eight ...
— Hanging by a Thread • Gordon Randall Garrett
... unaccustomed food proves to be good and satisfying, and also harmless, we may come to like it. That, however, which many good and eminent naturalists find to be healthful and reasonable, and others innocuous, a few still regard as most unreasonable and harmful. At present, we call to mind only two who not only hold to the entire fixity of species as an axiom or a confirmed principle, but also as a dogma, and who maintain, either expressly or implicitly, that the logical antithesis ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray
... These feats were duly recorded by Mr. Dupre, the house master, in a neat speech which he made at a feast given in the classroom to celebrate the glory of the house. When the plates of the eleven were finally cleared of cherry tart and tumblers were refilled with the most innocuous claret cup, Mr. ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... at his round, innocuous face, with the downy mustache and ruminative eyes, and smiled irrepressibly. Then ...
— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant
... this unchartered but widely known brotherhood appeared to pass their time on street corners arrayed like the lilies of the conservatory and busy with nail files and penknives. Thus displayed as a guarantee of good faith, they carried on an innocuous conversation in a 200-word vocabulary, to the casual observer as innocent and immaterial as that heard in clubs seven ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry


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