innocuous
无害的,无害,无毒的,无毒
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Definitions
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- : not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- : not likely to irritate or offend; inoffensive; an innocuous remark.
- : not interesting, stimulating, or significant; pallid; insipid: an innocuous novel.
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Examples
Seemingly innocuous at the time, Abdullahi’s statement now feels ominous after details of the bill became public this week.
A tool designed for an innocuous purpose can be easily used for the same function but with a far different application in mind.
It’s the nature of my medium versus his that it sounds more innocuous.
They regularly take down innocuous posts while giving hate speech and misinformation a pass.
They cover city councils and schools under innocuous-sounding banners such as “Illinois Valley Times” and the “Lansing Sun.”
Some have innocuous-seeming URLs like cardpool.com or giftcardgranny.com, which cloak the sinister operations.
The contrarians of the world went full Oliver Stone on the innocuous tune, branding it “problematic” and “anti-feminist.”
The film, however, makes Asher a pilot and Fiona a caretaker to the newborns—seemingly innocuous decisions that become meaningful.
One faction contends violent games invite real-world brutality, and the other faction defends violent games as innocuous.
It feels like an innocuous moment, it should be an innocuous moment, but such moments are like serrated precipices.
I wonder if you would have eschewed the harmless, necessary tub and danced upon the broken bones of the toothbrush.