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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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anodyne elevator music†
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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)anodyne = something soothing, comforting or mild so as not to upset
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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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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)anodyne = something soothing, comforting or mild so as not to upset
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Essence of deadliest powers, refin'd and sure, Of soothing anodynes abstraction pure, Now in thy master's need thy grace impart!† (source)
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It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.† (source)
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He said: and straight to Paeon gave command To heal the wound; with soothing anodynes He heal'd it quickly; soon as liquid milk Is curdled by the fig-tree's juice, and turns In whirling flakes, so soon was heal'd the wound.† (source)
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And Hatred is also a great anodyne for shame.† (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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I shall always be pointed at as the girl who flavored a cake with anodyne liniment.† (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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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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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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