nocuous

• “The internet makes periodic, seemingly in-nocuous appearances throughout Jennifer Egan's new novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad.”

  Newsweek: Friend This Novel!

• “Perfume or cologne applied on top of body odor combines to a nocuous smell for others.”

  Jodi R. R. Smith: Perfectly Polite While Working-out

• “Somewhere during the week shoulder pads became tied to an economic slowdown as did an almost nocuous kaleidoscope of color patterns.”

  Alex Geana: Fashion's Divided

• “As long as we have media celebrities like George Stephanopoulus and Bill O'Reilly constantly confronting McCain on this nocuous association with a man who feels that in a year of the most catastrophic attack on our country that it was a good year for him, the voter will know the truth ... right?”

  Did You Hear What John McCain's Unrepentant Friend, Who He Sought Support From, Said?

• “That innocuous graphic shows that we have a decidedly nocuous problem.”

  Bucks, Boomers, and Buck Rogers

• “Hassem had most likely purchased blossoms that were cut or plucked improperly, and therefore had lost some of their nocuous powers.”

  Conan The Hunter

• “The reaction was first described in Nature as “a syndrome produced by diverse nocuous agents.””

  Simon & Schuster: Handbook of Stress

• “Under cover of in-nocuous conversation designed to allay the interest of the soldier's two associates, they proceeded to study his per'sonal desk monitor.”

  Nor Crystal Tears

• “Elric had witnessed many obscenities in his life and was moved by few of them, but this device, though superficially more in - nocuous than much he had seen, brought bile into his mouth.”

  The Vanishing Tower

• “The receptors for pain have been designated nociceptors (nocuous or harmful) by Sherrington.”

  The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers

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