Adjective : threatening gestures. ,threatening clouds. From Dictionary.com.
It's very poetic and unthreatening, which is just like Lou in a way, but when you turn a corner, man you turn a corner. From Wordnik.com. [Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.] Reference
But they were high and unthreatening for the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Slightly Married]
Saturday's eight escapees were an unthreatening group. From Wordnik.com. [Tour's First Day Ends With Textbook Sprint] Reference
He was so thoroughly friendly and so completely unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [An Unacceptable Offer]
It always sat in the back, hunched down to look unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
I faced the fallen angel cautiously, my posture unthreatening but unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
They seemed much younger, and their request was innocuous and unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [The ‘bovver birds’ are back] Reference
I stood in silence in my sitting-room, looking out to the unthreatening garden. From Wordnik.com. [Come To Grief]
Laura knew she should free her hand, but his warm grasp seemed unthreatening enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Count's Blackmail Bargain]
The white pointy hoods are simply an unthreatening component of their belief system. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
And it won't be because of his forceful yet unthreatening middle-of-the-road politics. From Wordnik.com. [Why Powell's Race Matters] Reference
He sat cross-legged on the concrete floor, so as to appear immobile and unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [One Shot]
We tried to make our way to the gate towers in a calm, unthreatening, and peaceful fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
Of course, that usually means being bland, girlish, uncomplicated, and totally unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [Judy Davis, Inspiring 'Brilliant Career's 30 Years Later] Reference
He's sort of unthreatening and he's entertaining, and you know, he makes for good television. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2007] Reference
We had to find some unthreatening way to arrive, justify our presence and meet your neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
And now he ` s coming out with this little pageboy, and he looks so innocent and unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2007] Reference
He looked at me calmly in his unthreatening way and said it was time to trouble the Goodhavens. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
Much better than "Jodie" — the name he'd picked for this job because it was so unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
She's the Mall of America's ideal of what a woman should be: kind, pretty, generous, unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [The Malling Of Shania] Reference
What a selfish waste of a life of a beautiful unthreatening creature, just to be able to make a video. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2009] Reference
But Pagonel stopped far short of the throne and held up his hands in a sign of unthreatening greeting. From Wordnik.com. [Immortalis]
Keeping my movements slow and unthreatening, I poured some of the gold into my right hand, still smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Conrads Crusade]
Of course, this wasn't a scenario which would engender any bunker mentality, but was wholly unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Poll: More Americans Dislike Bush Than ... Cheney!] Reference
Viola in Twelfth Night is similarly unthreatening in her relation to the man she comes to love, Duke Orsino. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
But it also predicates itself on the voters 'participation, so it's also unthreatening, inviting, and empowering. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Harris: The Psychology of Hope: Why Obama's Words Are More Effective Than Hillary's] Reference
She caught his eye, glimpsed the underlying seriousness behind his easygoing, almost foppishly unthreatening mask. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
Indeed, at first glance, he seemed about the most unthreatening personality imaginable-until you saw him in action. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
Then he kissed her, close-mouthed, over and over, soft, pleasant, unthreatening kisses, until she relaxed in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
Jessica pushed herself slowly up onto her elbows, studying my black-smeared but evidently unthreatening visage, and waited. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
But authorities clearly want to remain on the right side of this growing -- yet politically unthreatening -- popular movement. From Wordnik.com. [Do Your Homework!] Reference
But it turns out there are plenty of solvent communities starved for unthreatening, satisfying portions of beef with broccoli. From Wordnik.com. [Try the Beef and Broccoli] Reference
Don't look now, but Marco Rubio is quietly shedding that Tea Party skin, remaking himself as reasonable, moderate, and unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [The Morning Plum] Reference
There the Trivigaunte airship fought its straining tether, so high that its vast bulk appeared, if not festive, at least unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
The man is small, unthreatening and very strange, wearing only white boxers and a T-shirt and talking in a "halting," "self-taught" way. From Wordnik.com. [Eighteen Pages of Genius - Then Modernist Mandarinism] Reference
What readability-per-line does mean, to the user encountering the language for the first time, is that source code will look unthreatening. From Wordnik.com. [Succinctness is Power] Reference
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