inoffensive
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Inoffensive as the prayer seemed to the Regents, it offended a lot of people.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Inoffensive Americans were quite as welcome in Europe in 1870 as they are now.
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)
Inoffensive, in-of-fen′siv, adj. giving no offence: harmless: not unpleasing.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Inoffensive, stricken men these appeared to be, and the big-limbed, hardy fishermen looked on them with mingled contempt and pity.
From Roden's Corner by Merriman, Henry Seton
He may be an Inoffensive Animal, but he Don't Look like it.
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber
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