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Adjective- Likely to cause injury.

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Usage examples (18)
  • That innocuous graphic shows that we have a decidedly nocuous problem.
  • Perfume or cologne applied on top of body odor combines to a nocuous smell for others.
  • Hassem had most likely purchased blossoms that were cut or plucked improperly, and therefore had lost some of their nocuous powers.
  • Somewhere during the week shoulder pads became tied to an economic slowdown as did an almost nocuous kaleidoscope of color patterns.
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