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unoffending

How to use unoffending in a sentence

He struck a poor man for a trifling word, with a flail, which proved fatal to the unoffending object.

Once he saw some butchers set their dogs on an unoffending Chinaman, a policeman looking on with amused interest.

It is a modified version of one of the scenes in the play, and is as amusing and unoffending as any.

Leo was obliged to talk to the girl, for, although she bored him greatly, she was too unoffending a creature to hurt.

Was the world, with all its climates, made in vain for thy helpless unoffending victim?

That you took the life of that ill-fated and unoffending man, there is no doubt; you have, yourself, confessed it.

EAST LYNNEMRS. HENRY WOOD

To wreak his vengeance upon Pharaoh, he visited with disease and death his unoffending cattle.

THE BIBLEJOHN E. REMSBURG

Podbury's mirth immediately subsides into gravity, and he kicks several unoffending chairs with quite uncalled-for brutality.

Lips, made but for smiling, fling weighty arguments on the unoffending atmosphere.

Even the heart of Cortez was touched with the almost unearthly misery he was inflicting upon an unoffending people.

HERNANDO CORTEZJOHN S. C. ABBOTT

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985