Sample Sentences foranodyne (auto-selected)
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She gave an anodyne answer during the interview, careful not to offend anyone.anodyne = bland
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Everything controversial was edited out of the documentary until it became anodyne.anodyne = bland or dull
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Among Louie's friends, no one would remember what Sasaki studied at USC, but they all recalled his quiet, anodyne presence; saying almost nothing, he smiled without interruption.† (source)
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It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.† (source)
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I shall always be pointed at as the girl who flavored a cake with anodyne liniment.† (source)
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They provided us deep pleasure, an anodyne to the squalor and clutter of the street.† (source)
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I think Jan must have been among them ... "But I don't know," Sophie said at last, gazing at me dry-eyed but sliding into the slurred diction which glass after glass of alcohol lent to her tongue, along with the merciful and grief-deadening anodyne it provided for her battered memory.† (source)
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When they embraced she felt against her collarbone through the fabric of his jacket a thick fountain pen, and smelled pipe smoke in the folds of his clothes, prompting a moment's nostalgia for afternoon tea visits to rooms in men's colleges, rather polite and anodyne occasions mostly, but cheery too, especially in winter.† (source)
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And Hatred is also a great anodyne for shame.† (source)
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The air was heavy with the perfume of the flowers, and their beauty seemed to bring him an anodyne for his pain.† (source)
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So, with a sigh, because novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand, I settled down with a notebook and a pencil to make what I could of Mary Carmichael's first novel, LIFE'S ADVENTURE.† (source)
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And she, whom he would not touch, lay there, like a sheaf of grain, in the crook of his arm, token of the world's remedy—the refuge from the one lost face out of all the faces, the anodyne against the wound named Laura—a thousand flitting shapes of beauty to bring him comfort and delight.† (source)
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Would they not have supplied him, out of what was contained in their knowledge of the life of Odette, with the one potent anodyne for his pain?† (source)
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When Rosamond was quiet, and Lydgate had left her, hoping that she might soon sleep under the effect of an anodyne, he went into the drawing-room to fetch a book which he had left there, meaning to spend the evening in his work-room, and he saw on the table Dorothea's letter addressed to him.† (source)
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When Madam Bovary had gone, he tried timidly and in the same terms to hazard one or two of the more anodyne observations he had heard from his mamma.† (source)
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The anodyne of muddledom, by which most men blur and blend their mistakes, never passed Leonard's lips— "And if I drink oblivion of a day, So shorten I the stature of my soul."† (source)
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