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Definition of Inoffensive

1. Adjective. Not causing anger or annoyance. "Inoffensive behavior"

2. Adjective. Giving no offense. "A refreshing inoffensive stimulant"

3. Adjective. Substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one. "`peepee' is a common euphemistic term"

Definition of Inoffensive

1. a. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.

Definition of Inoffensive

1. Adjective. not offensive ¹

2. Adjective. harmless ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inoffensive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inoffensive

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inodiates inodiating inodorate inodorous inodorousness inoffensive (current term) inoffensively inoffensiveness inofficial inofficially

inofficious inofficiously inogen inoic beam inolimomab inopectic inoperable inoperancies inoperancy inoperant

Literary usage of Inoffensive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1850)
"... so that it may be a solid justification— an inoffensive remonstrance—the expression of a dignified seriousness—reluctant to quarrel, but resolved not to ..."

2. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... exceeding affable and courteous, and wholly inoffensive in his Behaviour throughout: Wherefore I would persuade him not to resolve too hastily in it, ..."

3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... the peaceful and inoffensive, would inevitably sow the seeds of discord and disunion amongst us, and ruin our cause. ..."

4. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837)
"here in great magnificence, is quite inoffensive, seems to have forgotten every part of his past life, and to be of no party; and indeed this is perhaps the ..."

5. On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1896)
"I will quote but one other passage from him, and that a passage where the diction is comparatively inoffensive, in order that disapproval of the words may ..."

6. Annals of the American Pulpit: Or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished by William Buell Sprague (1858)
""The Church has lost a Judicious minister, and, as we hope, a sincere Christian; the world has lost an inoffensive, useful member of society; ..."

7. The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson, Bart. by William Leete Stone (1865)
"The event referred to was the murder, by a white man, of an aged and inoffensive Delaware chief named the Bald Eagle. He had for years consorted more with ..."

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