innoxious

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We have endeavored to be authentic, and to present matter, which, if it sometimes fail to impart knowledge or instruction, or convey a moral lesson, will, at least, be innoxious.

From Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea by Brayman, James O.

To other good attributes of pigments, it would be well if we could in all cases add the property of being innoxious.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

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

From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne

The species generally are considered edible, or innoxious.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

It can be rendered innoxious only by striking at its roots!

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne