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  • adjective Not menacing.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ menacing

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Examples

  • That must be the top of the Castle Rock, distant and unmenacing.

    Lord of the Flies Golding, William, 1911- 1954

  • It is very sure that Gringo could see in this nothing but a human making queer, unmenacing, monotonous sounds, so giving a final

    Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • Yet I propose to keep this whole subject so unmenacing to you personally, you owners of this boat, that I won't let

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • Exposing skin to mitigated sunshine and unmenacing air is another little recourse for skin rejuvenation.

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2008

  • Exposing skin to mitigated sunshine and unmenacing air is another little recourse for skin rejuvenation.

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2008

  • In those circumstances The Sun’s campaign is timeous, enabling those of us who have the temerity to ask Gordon Brown to honour his party’s promise to us to hold such a plebisicite to stand up and say after that election, in a wholly unmenacing but quite firm way: “We haven’t gone away, you know!”

    Archive 2007-09-23 2007

  • In those circumstances The Sun’s campaign is timeous, enabling those of us who have the temerity to ask Gordon Brown to honour his party’s promise to us to hold such a plebisicite to stand up and say after that election, in a wholly unmenacing but quite firm way: “We haven’t gone away, you know!”

    We Haven't Gone Away, You Know 2007

  • Exposing skin to mitigated sunshine and unmenacing air is another little recourse for skin rejuvenation. "

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2008

  • Exposing skin to mitigated sunshine and unmenacing air is another little recourse for skin rejuvenation. "

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2008

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