Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not offensive; harmless; inoffensive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inoffensive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
offensive
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Examples
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Somehow, adults are supposed to be scandalized by normal, unoffensive behavior that has no bearing on a lawmaker's ability to do his job.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Media's Weiner Pictures: Who's Getting Dirty Now? Michael Shaw 2011
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Announcing Mr. Spivak's hire, the station's general manager, Jerry Nachman, told The Post: "Given the reluctance on our part to put the toothy, blond, stylistic, unoffensive, white-bread news talent on the air, this guy was destined."
Joel A. Spivak, radio personality and anti-smoking spokesman, dies at 75 2011
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Woody Allen even turned the otherwise unoffensive “Antz” into an unwatchable “Woody AllenMovie.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting and Unbelieveably Depressing Interview: 2010
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Somehow, adults are supposed to be scandalized by normal, unoffensive behavior that has no bearing on a lawmaker's ability to do his job.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Media's Weiner Pictures: Who's Getting Dirty Now? Michael Shaw 2011
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A banal, unoffensive first lady and a TV talk show host are NOT more admired than the only woman thus far to get within spitting distance of the White House.
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To me, it comes remarkably close to "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief" and all those totally-unoffensive-of-course Paddy jokes.
Clarkson - Apologising for the right thing and ignoring Scots MPs Norfolk Blogger 2009
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A banal, unoffensive first lady and a TV talk show host are NOT more admired than the only woman thus far to get within spitting distance of the White House.
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You tend to be predictable and unoffensive to the conservative ownership.
Media for Schweitzer? David 2008
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The theme colours don't work either so I've now changed it all to visually unoffensive neutrals.
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Woody Allen even turned the otherwise unoffensive “Antz” into an unwatchable “Woody AllenMovie.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Interesting and Unbelieveably Depressing Interview: 2010
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