innocuous

How To Use innocuous In A Sentence

• This seemingly innocuous phrase was actually a veiled threat. THE GUARDSMEN
• Such a seemingly innocuous observation, yet as Logan evolves from student, to writer, to secret agent, to art gallery dealer, we see how it informs a kind of amorality in his character that propels him to sleep with his college mate's girlfriend and, later, the same man's wife, marry a woman he doesn't love and then push her aside when he meets the real love of his life. SFGate: Top News Stories
• There was a sense of disorganisation at times, as in the 20th minute when Gabriel Heinze pumped an innocuous-looking high ball towards the penalty area which Brown and Smalling both went to clear and then left to one another. Chris Smalling helps make a shaky case for Manchester United's defence
• The first, innocuous shower stroked the lake's surface but, when the wind came up, the loons began to call madly.
• The causal infection can be viral or bacterial and may have been innocuous. Times, Sunday Times
• Provos is an expert on steganography, the science of concealing secret messages in seemingly innocuous content.
• They tend to be innocuous when not fully ripe but the flavour builds up. Food Watch
• Filmed once before with Stacy Keach, The Killer Inside Me is perhaps Thompson's best known book, telling the story of a seemingly innocuous smalltown sheriff who hides a psychopathic secret.
• The flowers were the same colour as the mysterious building which flanked the cemetery - an innocuous pale pink. The Crossing-Place
• ‘The dissimilitude between the terms ‘civil marriage’ and ‘civil union’ is not innocuous: it is a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual couples to second-class status.