innocuous

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  1. adjective Having no adverse effect; harmless.
  2. adjective Not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion; insipid.

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  • The selection worked well enough; at first the magic they encountered was largely innocuous, as if the concentration were all at the beach. —  A Spell for Chameleon
  • Conversation was general, innocuous, and sounded a little as if it had been carefully memorised beforehand. —  Final Curtain - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 14
  • "Community planning" is the sort of innocuous, agreeable phrase that rarely evokes more than a yawn, the province of over-credentialed technocrats. —  City Limits - Weekly Articles
  • Contrary to the earlier view that methylated compounds are innocuous, the methylated metabolites are now recognized to be both toxic and carcinogenic, possibly due to genotoxicity, inhibition of antioxidative enzyme functions, or other mechanisms. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • "The sign is kind of innocuous," Reichenthal offered.
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  1. From Latin innocuus : in-, not; see in-1 + nocuus, harmful (from nocēre, to harm; see nek-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = Spanish Italian innocuo, from Latin innocuus, harmless, from in- privative + nocuus, harmful, from nocere, hurt: see nocent.
 

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