noncontentious love

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  • adjective Of, or relating to, that which is not contentious.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of persons; not given to controversy

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Examples

  • The Israel lobby went crazy, and Ricks and the Post backed down, alas (with Ricks saying drily that he was going to go back to a noncontentious issue: Iraq).

    Tom Ricks Doesn't Want to Be Called A Lefty (Jump In, Tom, the Water's Fine) 2006

  • Of these the Introduction should contain noncontentious matter, and the Conclusion should be a restatement of the proposition, with a bare summary of the main issues in affirmative (or negative) form.

    The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner

  • But the well gave up quantities of noncontentious matter before Mayhew's services were required.

    The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

  • The League was preached by President Wilson and by British statesmen in 1918 and 1919, not simply as an organization of international co-operation in noncontentious and humanitarian activities.

    The International Situation and the Protocol 1925

  • Some of Mr. Cameron's ideas are relatively noncontentious; for example, he would like the court's decisions to be accepted as precedents to prevent its having to hear similar types of cases.

    NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN CASTLE 2012

  • Some of Mr. Cameron's ideas are relatively noncontentious; for example, he would like the court's decisions to be accepted as precedents to prevent its having to hear similar types of cases.

    NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN CASTLE 2012

  • Some of Mr. Cameron's ideas are relatively noncontentious; for example, he would like the court's decisions to be accepted as precedents to prevent its having to hear similar types of cases.

    NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN CASTLE 2012

  • Cameroon's noncontentious, low-profile approach to foreign relations puts it squarely in the middle of other African and developing country states on major issues.

    unknown title 2009

  • Cameroon's noncontentious, low-profile approach to foreign relations puts it squarely in the middle of other African and developing country states on major issues.

    unknown title 2009

  • Cameroon's noncontentious, low-profile approach to foreign relations puts it squarely in the middle of other African and developing country states on major issues.

    unknown title 2009

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