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/ɪnəfˈɛnsɪv/ Listen

adjective

Inoffensive adj.

Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.

Harmless; doing no injury or mischief.

Not obstructing; presenting no interruption or hindrance. (R.) "So have I seen a river gently glide In a smooth course, and inoffensive tide."

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Etymology of 'Inoffensive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inoffensive" Quotes from Famous Books

... to acquire courage to ask what reason she could have for hating any one who looked so gentle and inoffensive, when the woman resumed, ...

— True Love's Reward • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... his coils around his captive. Brought up in a rigid school of courtesy toward his elders, the Tyro sought some inoffensive means of breaking away; but when the other hooked an arm into his, alleging the roll of the vessel,—though not in the least needing the support,—he all but gave up hope. For an interminable quarter of an hour the marplot jurist teased his captive. Then, with the air of one making ...

— Little Miss Grouch - A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's - Maiden Transatlantic Voyage • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... the dark street, his impulse was to flee—get out, get away from the whole business. A sullen shame was pumping the hot blood up into his neck and cheeks. He strove to find an inoffensive name for what he was proposing to do, but ugly terms, synonym after synonym, crowded in to characterise the impending procedure, and he walked on angrily, half frightened, looking back from moment to moment at the house he had ...

— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers

... people, or who, speaking of politics, tell us of the current situation. Excessive laughter, jokes, and violent gestures are not permitted. Every one keeps his limbs quiet, even avoiding those vivacious and inoffensive gestures which are the natural accompaniment of conversation; the tone of voice is so modulated as to be scarcely audible. The ancient preacher would say, "These people have carried out St. Paul's exhortation to an exaggerated ...

— Spontaneous Activity in Education • Maria Montessori

... Cole," as the boys derisively called him, an inoffensive little man, with a weak, limp woman for a wife, and three or four weaker and limper children, had for many years vegetated on one corner of an hundred-and-sixty acres of woods, having made but a small clearing, and managed in some unknown way to live on it. His feeble condition exposed him to ...

— Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle

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