Sample sentences for INNOCUOUS

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Definition

unlikely to harm or disturb

She made some innocuous comments while being careful not to hurt anyone's feelings.

innocuous = unlikely to harm or disturb

Her comments were innocuous, but he quoted them out of context to make them appear sinister.

innocuous = unlikely to harm or disturb

When he walked away, after a few dozen paces, a black book fell innocuously from his coat pocket without his knowledge.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

innocuously = seemingly harmlessly

The great words flutter innocuously to the courtroom floor.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind

innocuously = harmlessly

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.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

innocuous = unlikely to disturb (not arousing concern)

If you saw it from a distance, the sinkhole seemed innocuous—like an overgrown mud puddle just starting to dry out.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

innocuous = harmless

For there was one last letter, this one in code, seemingly innocuous in its babbling about hunting and the tedium of life in Niagara.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet

innocuous = harmless

The terrace was peaceful and innocuous-looking in the sunshine.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

innocuous = harmless

During the extremely innocuous and very friendly conference,
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum

innocuous = harmless

Ogawa had always been an innocuous man, one of the few Japanese whom Louie had never had reason to fear.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

innocuous = unlikely to harm or disturb

With ... Hal swearing innocuously ... they staggered into John Thornton's camp
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

innocuously = harmlessly

...from a great Niagara of reading matter to a mere innocuous dripping of...
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles

innocuous = unlikely to harm or disturb

This celebrated statesman was carrying on an innocuous conversation while his mind was riveted on an entirely different subject.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

innocuous = harmless

"You . . . you haven't seen Mom in years."
"That's not true," she said simply, as if I'd told her the wrong time, something that innocuous.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key

innocuous = unlikely to disturb

Send in the most innocuous person from Twelve they can come up with.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

innocuous = unlikely to harm or disturb

Conscious of Astaroth's prohibitions, Max allowed himself no books but took one innocuous paper—a private note that...
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

innocuous = unlikely to harm or disturb

But a little later it was reminding her a good deal less of that innocuous function.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

innocuous = harmless

In the fading light, the chain links look as innocuous as usual.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire

innocuous = unlikely to harm

My mind had raced with awful possibilities, picturing her dead on the highway, but the truth was actually much more innocuous.
Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever

innocuous = harmless (not disturbing)

It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous.
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters

innocuous = harmless

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