Both Uses of
innocuous
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He looked at the door with a sensation of malevolent triumph at the thought of all those voices being defeated by the innocuous figure of his secretary, a young man expert at nothing but the art of evasion, which he practiced with the gray, rubber limpness of the amoral.†
Chpt 2.8
- It took her a moment to remember that the innocuously courteous figure she saw bowing to her with a standard smile of welcome was the assistant manager of the apartment house.†
Chpt 2.9 *
Definition:
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(innocuous) unlikely to harm or disturb