innoxious

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Neat cattle will touch nothing that is not wholesome in its nature; nothing that is not wholly innoxious.

From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by Cobbett, William

"Admit these innumerable opportunities for defrauding the revenue, without check or control, and it is next to impossible he should remain unsullied in reputation, or innoxious with respect to misapplying his trust."

From Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism by Ford, Henry Jones

In those volumes of departed rubbish he sinks very low, whenever he essays to mount; but his dulness is innoxious, for few there be who can say, "We have read him."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various

It enables you to discover that riches and titles do not confer merit; you think comparatively little of them; and, as far as relates to you, at any rate, their insolence is innoxious.

From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by Cobbett, William

Born to no Pride, inheriting no Strife, Nor marrying Discord in a noble wife, Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious thro' his age.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander