Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being inoffensive; harmlessness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
inoffensive .
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Examples
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It's the most homogenized of the three, a white-bread sandwich of inoffensiveness but lacking in color all the same.
Alma Katsu: A Glut of Capital Area Book Festivals Alma Katsu 2011
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Litto has argued that "Cato" was chosen for "its inoffensiveness, gentility, and expressions of noble sentiment."
On Life, Liberty and Other Quotable Matters John J. Miller 2011
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It's the most homogenized of the three, a white-bread sandwich of inoffensiveness but lacking in color all the same.
Alma Katsu: A Glut of Capital Area Book Festivals Alma Katsu 2011
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It's the most homogenized of the three, a white-bread sandwich of inoffensiveness but lacking in color all the same.
Alma Katsu: A Glut of Capital Area Book Festivals Alma Katsu 2011
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It's the most homogenized of the three, a white-bread sandwich of inoffensiveness but lacking in color all the same.
Alma Katsu: A Glut of Capital Area Book Festivals Alma Katsu 2011
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The 29th annual "Christmas in Washington" concert that taped Sunday night at the National Building Museum was a celebration of inoffensiveness.
In concert: Mariah Carey, Annie Lennox, Maxwell and more, "Christmas in Washington" at the National Building Museum David Malitz 2010
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The 29th annual "Christmas in Washington" concert that taped Sunday night at the National Building Museum was a celebration of inoffensiveness.
'Christmas in Washington,' warm and fuzzy David Malitz 2010
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While a few who commented on our blog said it did, comments ran about about two to one in favor of the video's inoffensiveness.
Kin video not pulled, but edited to remove controversial sequence 2010
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My weeny merguez, resting flaccidly on couscous, franked the inoffensiveness form, while another, fatter nine quid banger, "the Beaujolaise" – an amalgam of pork, mushroom, onion and bacon – seemed less a sausage than a loose coalition struggling to coexist amicably under the one skin.
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While a few who commented on our blog said it did, comments ran about about two to one in favor of the video's inoffensiveness.
Kin video not pulled, but edited to remove controversial sequence 2010
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