inoffensive

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It was a family whom the rich respected and the poor loved--inoffensive, charitable, and well off.

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  1. adjective Giving no offense; unobjectionable.
  2. adjective Causing no harm; harmless.

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  • He was quite inoffensive, and no patient in the ward seemed to attend more strictly to his own business. —  A Mind That Found Itself
  • There is no more disgraceful proceeding to be found in the pages of history than our raid on this small and highly honourable, inoffensive, and brave people. —  Drake, Nelson and Napoleon
  • You will find him a very good-natured well-informed, inoffensive, and obliging companion I was exceedingly vexed and not a little offended when I heard that you had passed through this town some time ago without calling upon me, or letting me know that you was in our neighbourhood. —  Life of Adam Smith
  • If the deceased lived a moral, inoffensive, and exemplary life, the public, at its own expense, oftentimes erects kaba_) a cubical building with a dome at the top to the departed and he is thence denominated (_fakeer_) a saint Footnote 181: A coba is a cubical building, about forty or fifty feet square, having a dome on the top, inhabited by a fakeer; the ground adjacent to this building is consecrated for the dead, but is never inclosed. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
  • But another look only showed me that his very surprise was inoffensive, and gathering courage from the unexpectedness of my own position, I inquired with all the politeness I could show one of his abominable nationality Didn't a gentleman and a heavily veiled lady leave a package with you a few days ago at about the same hour of night as this Some lalee clo' washee? —  That Affair Next Door
 

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  1. = French inoffensif = Spanish inofensivo = Portuguese inoffensivo; as in- + offensive.
 

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/ɪnəˈfɛnsɪv/
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