Adjective : a mild, inoffensive man. ,an inoffensive odor. From Dictionary.com.
All the while, inoffensively, he watched Mrs. Semple. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
Even her name is pleasantly, inoffensively commonplace. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah Brown must be stopped or I will be ill] Reference
I wish I could say it inoffensively and more persuasively. From Wordnik.com. [Tell Us What to Do] Reference
But a change of masters cannot be managed so inoffensively. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
I said inoffensively, 'Mrs Dove seems in awe of his anger.'. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
They ignored Turane, for he was lying inoffensively on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL] Reference
My suggestion was to keep the slogan, but translate it inoffensively. From Wordnik.com. [John Leo: Jersey Gets a Slogan] Reference
'I hear you're damned expensive,' he began inoffensively, handing me a glass. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
The impersonal glance surveyed him from head to foot, inoffensively but ffectively. From Wordnik.com. [Hercule Poirot's Casebook]
The impersonal glance surveyed him from head to foot, inoffensively but ffecfively. From Wordnik.com. [Hercule Poirot's Casebook]
Menyllus was sufficient security that the garrison should behave itself inoffensively. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
The idea was to process and decompose organic matter as inoffensively and rapidly as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
In the afternoon, the little dog calms down, padding inoffensively around my office as I write. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Dowling: I must bond with the new dog] Reference
Possessing the quality of being inoffensively middle class, and appreciative of well-cut dresses. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah Brown must be stopped or I will be ill] Reference
"At best they are inoffensively aimed at men and at worst they are downright patronising to women.". From Wordnik.com. [silly seasons here -women and beer] Reference
I found the right street, and the right house, crouching inoffensively behind its hurricane fencing. From Wordnik.com. [Killing Floor]
The right answer seems to be: muddle through, as inoffensively as possible, just like the rest of us. From Wordnik.com. [Varia: It's Not 'The Passion'] Reference
She was pretty and sang inoffensively enough, but what really made her name was the drink that bore it. From Wordnik.com. [Maybe Mamie, Maybe Not] Reference
I tried to inoffensively get the story on the normal situation, and received a wide range of explanations. From Wordnik.com. [Visit to Patzcuaro] Reference
"Bob Graham has a quality that I would describe as relentlessly intelligent, but inoffensively so," Mr. Cuomo said. From Wordnik.com. [Graham Charges Bush Covered Up Sept. 11 Lapses] Reference
She is so good it is almost possible to overlook a production that is as inoffensively boring and predictable as it can be. From Wordnik.com. [Manon, encore] Reference
Eugene Volokh has managed the impossible: a pun that inoffensively links Passover and the Ku Klux Klan. posted by Eric 11: 58 AM |. From Wordnik.com. [IsThatLegal?] Reference
Perhaps and I mean this as inoffensively as I can possibly put it it means that nuts are evenly distributed throughout the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Data on Presidential Campaign Contributions:] Reference
It's neither overly funny or charming, but it is inoffensively passable. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Verdict] Reference
So she stood and watched the sparrows inoffensively until Anne called her. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
Love is a light which may lead us by offences inoffensively, and without stumbling. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference
As they conducted themselves so inoffensively, we gave them everything we had to spare. From Wordnik.com. [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference
I see blank well-ordered streets and men in black moving about inoffensively, sullenly. From Wordnik.com. [The Napoleon of Notting Hill] Reference
So this affair began; inoffensively at the start, for my lord was good-humoured about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
Ordinary men might say or think it inoffensively; Captain Baskelett, for instance: but not Nevil. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
We went along very quietly and inoffensively, just as any other passengers would do, until we reached Big Shanty. From Wordnik.com. [Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure] Reference
He sniffs at all sorts of innocently happy people who are inoffensively pursuing their noisy course through life. From Wordnik.com. [Nonsenseorship] Reference
Shears moored off it, looking meekly and inoffensively out of proportion, like the Giraffe of the machinery creation. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
He was mighty witty, and she also making sport with him very inoffensively, that a more pleasant 'rencontre' I never heard. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
It was as soft and warm as an unspoken promise, and it flipped back skirt hems and twisted hair tendrils most inoffensively. From Wordnik.com. [Stubble] Reference
If he behaved as inoffensively as at Richmond, acquaintance with him might be continued for the variety it brought into her life. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
It seemed more politic to obey his instincts and remain unobtrusive in company and drift away inoffensively when the chance occurred. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
Black or brown, young or old, married or single, "Our Family Wedding" traffics cheerfully if inoffensively in equal-opportunity cliches. From Wordnik.com. [Variety.com]
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