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innocuous

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1. innocuous - Adjective

2. innocuous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Harmless; producing no ill effect; innocent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. Grover Cleveland

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble. Nigella Lawson

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well. Charles Baudelaire

The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains. It seems a compelling and innocuous idea - until you think about what it really means. Joel Bakan

The final paragraph is merely an exercise in slamming open doors. Or so it seems, for several in-your-face assertions are built into this innocuous piece of journalistic emptiness. Koenraad Elst

It is odd how pleasant and sympathetic her poems are, in these days when many a poet had rather walk down children like Mr. Hyde than weep over them like Swinburne, and when many a poem is gruesome occupational therapy for a poet who stays legally innocuous by means of it. Randall Jarrell

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