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She made some innocuous comments while being careful not to hurt anyone's feelings.innocuous = unlikely to harm or disturb
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Her comments were innocuous, but he quoted them out of context to make them appear sinister.
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If he hadn't despised him, he might not have taken his place a few weeks later on a fairly innocuous road. (source)innocuous = unlikely to disturb (not arousing concern)
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Ogawa had always been an innocuous man, one of the few Japanese whom Louie had never had reason to fear. (source)innocuous = unlikely to harm or disturb
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In the fading light, the chain links look as innocuous as usual. (source)innocuous = unlikely to harm
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He had forgotten that the seemingly innocuous request of all European hotels to see a passport at check-in was more than a quaint formality--it was the law. (source)innocuous = harmless
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If you saw it from a distance, the sinkhole seemed innocuous—like an overgrown mud puddle just starting to dry out. (source)innocuous = harmless
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The great words flutter innocuously to the courtroom floor. (source)innocuously = harmlessly
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During the extremely innocuous and very friendly conference, (source)innocuous = harmless
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With ... Hal swearing innocuously ... they staggered into John Thornton's camp (source)innocuously = harmlessly
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In a letter to the editor of Science, one of them warned, "When we are prevented from attempting seemingly innocuous studies of cancer behavior in humans … we may mark 1966 as the year in which all medical progress ceased." (source)innocuous = harmless
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Innocuously.† (source)Innocuously = harmlessly
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We are inside a Denny's. Unremarkable but adequate lighting; expressionless decor and dinnerware; floor plan designed to the last detail by management engineers; innocuous background music at low volume; staff meticulously trained to deal with customers by the book: (source)innocuous = unlikely to disturb
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He had lived innocuously for a little while and then had gone down in flame over Ferrara on the seventh day, while God was resting, when McWatt turned and Yossarian guided him in over the target on a second bomb run because Aarfy was confused and Yossarian had been unable to drop his bombs the first time.† (source)innocuously = harmlessly
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The only other address I had was the innocuous box number which people used who didn't want to advertise the fact they lived in an asylum. (source)innocuous = unlikely to disturb (not arousing concern)
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Much of the music has the mid-eighties feel of the Beverly Hills Cop sound track—squeaky blips, pops, and bright, punchy rhythms—but by the fifth or sixth repeat of the music, it fades innocuously into the background.† (source)innocuously = harmlessly
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