That innocuous graphic shows that we have a decidedly nocuous problem. From Wordnik.com. [Bucks, Boomers, and Buck Rogers] Reference
Perfume or cologne applied on top of body odor combines to a nocuous smell for others. From Wordnik.com. [Jodi R. R. Smith: Perfectly Polite While Working-out] Reference
Hassem had most likely purchased blossoms that were cut or plucked improperly, and therefore had lost some of their nocuous powers. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Hunter]
Somewhere during the week shoulder pads became tied to an economic slowdown as did an almost nocuous kaleidoscope of color patterns. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Geana: Fashion's Divided] Reference
Under cover of in-nocuous conversation designed to allay the interest of the soldier's two associates, they proceeded to study his per'sonal desk monitor. From Wordnik.com. [Nor Crystal Tears]
Elric had witnessed many obscenities in his life and was moved by few of them, but this device, though superficially more in - nocuous than much he had seen, brought bile into his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Vanishing Tower]
The receptors for pain have been designated nociceptors (nocuous or harmful) by Sherrington. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
Another unintentionally nocuous element of the movie is the presence of the boys 'bodyguard Big Rob. From Wordnik.com. [The Michigan Daily] Reference
Recommendations on prevention of penetration of nocuous programs have been given to all users of the state information network. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This quality of control, having been phylogenetically most recently acquired, is the most vulnerable to various nocuous influences. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
Without self-limitation, the quest for energy will be a perpetual tail-chase exhibiting severe nocuous, deleterious, and annihilative repercussions. From Wordnik.com. [Countercurrents.org] Reference
Admittedly, it is difficult at times to distinguish between the nocuous and the innocuous, for one may not always be aware of contemporary sentiments. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
This "small space" might describe a range of circumstances in the South Bronx. Residents 'lives are shaped by low expectations and nocuous pasts, by close walls at home and in school, by their limited mobility. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters]
The air of the theatre, the ball-room, the race-course, seem so impregnated with the nocuous germs and microbes of evil, that it is perilous for the soul to expose itself to them, conscious as it is of predisposing bias and weakness. From Wordnik.com. [John the Baptist] Reference
As a further remarkable proof of the marvelous adaptation of the body mechanism to meet varying environmental conditions, we find that just as nociceptors have been implanted in only those parts of the body which have been subject to nocuous contacts, so a type of infection which causes muscular action in one part of the body may cause none when it attacks another. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
Just as the larynx, the ear, the nose, the sole of the foot, and the skin have all developed the specific type of nociceptors which are adapted for their specific protective purposes, and which, when adequately stimulated, respond in a specific manner in accordance with the law of phylogenetic association, so, the abdominal viscera have developed equally specific nociceptors as a protection against specific nocuous influences. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
It looked in-nocuous enough. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
He is in - nocuous, with respect to thee. From Wordnik.com. [Split Infinity]
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