inoffensiveness

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One of the most prominent thinkers on this issue, journalist Wesley Lowery, has written that some defenders of objectivity are more interested in inoffensiveness and appearance, less so on journalistic rigor.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2024

It might leave them out in the name of ecumenicism, of inoffensiveness, of being something for as many people as possible — what an uncharitable person might call the lowest common denominator.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2021

Adult Swim’s “Joe Pera Talks With You” is a comedian’s intricately constructed simulacrum of Midwestern courtesy and inoffensiveness, rendered with just the slightest perceptible edge of satire.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

Their freak-flag-flying zaniness almost looks progressive next to Rogue One, which is almost pedantic in its inoffensiveness.

From Time • Dec. 13, 2016

One of the most obvious views which are presented to us by man in society is the inoffensiveness and innocence that ordinarily characterise him.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by Godwin, William