Adjective : an innocuous home remedy. ,an innocuous novel. From Dictionary.com.
Though she was not entirely sure she would ever be able to use that particular word innocuously again. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
Word came innocuously enough-via the Associated Press wire. From Wordnik.com. [Cuomo Gets Young Turks For 2002] Reference
It may start out innocuously enough, but will end in tyrany. From Wordnik.com. [Holder pushes hate crimes law; GOP unpersuaded] Reference
Perhaps you introduced it innocuously away from any argument. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Kerry: ‘The only thing Republicans say yes to are Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, tea partiers, and Fox News.’] Reference
I answered, innocuously enough, "And I am waiting for my wife.". From Wordnik.com. [A New Sales Incentive] Reference
There is no other occupation in which one may wander so innocuously. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
It started, innocuously enough with my plush and vinyl Cthulhu posting. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast Links: Three Series of Related Events : #comments] Reference
The fever had begun innocuously enough, along with mild aches and pains. From Wordnik.com. ['After the Prophet'] Reference
She always answered every question easily and cheerfully and innocuously. From Wordnik.com. [Speaker for the Dead]
Synagogue as innocuously papish as the last phases of the Oxford movement. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
THE EVENING had begun innocuously enough with the wedding of the young minister. From Wordnik.com. [Never Come Down]
I was innocuously poking around on JDate when I got an IM from the user TRUTHY4U. From Wordnik.com. [Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: 32 - My Date with Jon Stewart] Reference
Wizards announced an innocuously-worded “organizational alignment” the other day. From Wordnik.com. [Wizards Layoffs « Geek Related] Reference
He glanced down at Wirikidor, lying innocuously at his side, and a thought struck him. From Wordnik.com. [The Misenchanted Sword]
He looked at the packages on the table in front of him, wrapped innocuously in Cellophane. From Wordnik.com. [Not the End of the World]
Then open the question innocuously, talking about some aspect of life we all can relate to. From Wordnik.com. [Time To Pepper Obama and Clinton With Progressive Questioins, Like Impeachment] Reference
This company has often been described, innocuously it would seem, as an investment company. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Family Businesses] Reference
I handed him the Playbill ™, exclaiming innocuously, "Another time for you, I guess, huh?". From Wordnik.com. [Richard Laermer: Your Own Personal Slap of Fame: Much Cooler Than any Brush with Greatness] Reference
Despite the horror stories you hear on the news, most Internet misadventures end innocuously. From Wordnik.com. [The Keyboard Kids] Reference
It started out innocuously enough as the government wanting to help people become homeowners. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2008] Reference
Merrill set out to reduce its exposure, in an effort referred to innocuously as "de-risking.". From Wordnik.com. [Merrill Upped Ante as Boom] Reference
"I expected to come upon a dwarf, not a man dressed like a cockroach," Chiun said innocuously. From Wordnik.com. [Encounter Group]
Borla shifted his slyly conniving eyes innocuously back to Si'Wren's grieving, outraged countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
You're too busy heading that innocuously-named squad set up to take over murders of a sensitive nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder Room]
Reggie smiled innocuously at Elderby; he couldn't see Benjy, on her other side, screened by her wide skirts. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
“The meeting started off innocuously enough, with the speakers talking about corporate espionage,” he says. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: Matthew Rothschild Reveals New, Fascist FBI Project that Looks Like Communist Insider Program] Reference
It was enough to have it at home, buried innocuously on his computer in the midst of a list of household items. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Places]
While Volquez (1-1) struggled, Gallardo had an ugly 40-pitch third inning that began innocuously with two outs. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
It started off innocuously enough; a cartoon-y woman was sitting in an over-stuffed, comfy-looking, cartoon-y armchair. From Wordnik.com. [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference
The article begins innocuously enough, by mentioning some of Whole Foods 'innovative and progressive corporate strategies. From Wordnik.com. [Christiana Wyly: Is Whole Foods Market Just Another Evil Corporation?] Reference
Everybody just assumes I'm a freak because I'm doing what I'm doing, even though I'm dressed innocuously in jeans and a T-shirt. From Wordnik.com. [Shampoo Planet]
What he could not erase because it had already been entered into general storage he buried as deeply and innocuously as he could. From Wordnik.com. [Diuturnity's Dawn]
Instead of morbid celebrations of Halloween, there will be innocuously termed — and innocuously decorated — "Harvest Parties.". From Wordnik.com. [Halloween: A Christian Perspective] Reference
My next mistake is to comment innocuously, I think on why he always puts his feet on his desk - does he have a lower-back problem?. From Wordnik.com. [Ginny Dougary: Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever] Reference
My next mistake is to comment (innocuously, I think) on why he always puts his feet on his desk - does he have a lower-back problem?. From Wordnik.com. [Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever] Reference
Slothrop knows it, but just keeps on skulking along, seeking less sensitive axes of suspicion, running zigzags, aimed innocuously south. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
It started rather innocuously in the hotbed of ethnic unrest, Western Macedonia - telegraph wires were cut, some tax registers incinerated. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
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