innoxious

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I wish I could render the incentives to every other equally innoxious in his case.’

From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne

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

"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

The poisonous portion of the plant to man are the seeds and seedstalks, while their dark purple pulp is utterly innoxious and edible.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis

The sky was bright and cloudless; the atmosphere, apparently, pure and innoxious; while the heat was as great as is generally experienced in the middle of summer.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison