How To Use Inoffensive In A Sentence

I'd rather have a sliver of prosciutto or a wheel of spicy sausage than neutral, inoffensive chicken any day.
Despite the lack of extras, the movie is nice-looking, inoffensive fun, and a welcome addition to any DVD library.
Docile and inoffensive by nature, the anteater's principal enemies are the puma and the jaguar.
He is fondly remembered by his neighbours and friends as a kind, helpful and inoffensive man.
All the exquisite, surrounding obscurity was animated by that music, which continued in the distance, in the mystery of the leaves and of the stones, in the depths of all the small, black holes of rocks or walls; it seemed like chivies in miniature, or rather, a sort of frail concert somewhat mocking -- oh! not very mocking, and without any maliciousness -- led timidly by inoffensive gnomes. Ramuntcho

It simply exists in an inoffensive and unexciting realm of commonplaceness that makes it incapable of standing out among the pack of infinitely better racers available for any of its chosen platforms.
This man, taciturn, clearminded, laborious, inoffensive, zealous for no government and useful to every government, had gradually become an almost indispensable part of the machinery of the state. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
A breastfed baby's stools should be frequent, greenish, inoffensively fragrant, loose, and unformed.
It seems that being merely nice and inoffensive gets you nowhere on the telly.
They come up to gallery requirements by their "pleasantness" or the inoffensiveness of their style. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
There's that sickeningly familiar tone again - the rasping, grating, in isolation entirely inoffensive, six-string bravado.
What tends to deprave or corrupt one person may prove perfectly inoffensive to another.
Snakebite Orks always carry a selection of venomous serpents with them when they migrate to new planets, just in case the indigenous lifeforms prove to be unsuitably inoffensive .
The poet's worship is so supersensual as to be inoffensive. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
It's inoffensive and unchallenging guitars alongside a basic melody. The Sun
The result is a highly inoffensive, passable sound which has its interesting, if unremarkable, moments.
Antiquity to angling is like social position to the gentleman:I would rather prove myself a gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors; and yet I grant, that where a noble and ancient descent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person. . . The ideal of the gentleman
By her kind, her meek, her inoffensive behaviour, she had conciliated the sincere good will of all her neighbours and acquaintance; nor amid the busy cares of time was she ever forgetful of Eternity. Letter 413
A quiet, kind and inoffensive woman she enjoyed the simple things in life and looked forward to a weekly game of bingo.
In general, in-flight films are supposed to be as inoffensive and unstimulating as possible.
This last affair, however, made me seriously uneasy, because if his exquisite sensibilities were to go the length of involving him in pot-house shindies, he would lose his name of an inoffensive, if aggravating, fool, and acquire that of a common loafer. Lord Jim
All concerned were determined that the document should be as bland and inoffensive as possible. Times, Sunday Times
I tread cautiously here, firstly because my one posted review, which has no comments as of this writing, is quite weak, if inoffensively so.
The need of the electorate was to reject and eject a corrupt administration, Labour being an inoffensive alternative.
Is it because they're relatively cheap, relatively inoffensive and relatively interesting? Times, Sunday Times
The rules of the Petrolia Oil Exchange provide that refined kerosene shall be of the odor "locally known as inoffensive," and shall Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
Who was she, the old witch, for so he mentally termed the inoffensive woman devoutly conning her prayer book, unconscious of the wrath her presence was exciting in the bosom of the young man beside her! Bad Hugh
But you might be surprised to learn, as I was, that an inoffensive little vespertilionid is also an awesome tetrapod predator. Archive 2006-06-01
If the author convenes religious beliefs in inoffensive and unobtrusive manner (King did this in “The Stand” and it was perfectly digestible) or turn it in a underlying message, that's perfectly fine with me - but don’t drop it fervently right on top of my head. Glen E. Page - The Last Plague (book review)
The film might end up being completely inoffensive for all I know, but I see why they are worried.
She had a cold and a smear of phosphorescent snot lay on her upper lip, a hapless, inoffensive leak that I was responsible for. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
They are inoffensively patterned and meticulously maintained, with fluffy robes in the bathroom, DVDs by the TV and home-made biscuits at the bedside.
A quiet, inoffensive person, she was the essence of gentleness and kindness.
Inoffensive, energetic and pleasantly silly comic froth, David Dobkin's jaunty Shanghai Knights serves up robust verbal cut and thrust from the ever willing Chan and his charmingly dippy, English-baiting foil, Wilson.
He was a quiet, inoffensive gentleman of the old style, who devoted his time to his work and family.
A religious group that could effectively weed out offensive people, the Friends found slave owners sufficiently inoffensive.
In short, the film is a pleasingly inoffensive diversion in which Philip Seymour Hoffman, in the guise of splenetic gonzo rock journalist Lester Bangs, almost steals the show.
They were obliged to confess that Brownsville was about the rowdiest town of Texas, which was the most lawless State in the Confederacy; but they declared they had never seen an inoffensive man subjected to insult or annoyance, although the shooting-down and stringing-up systems are much in vogue, being almost a necessity in a thinly-populated State, much frequented by desperadoes driven away from more civilized countries. Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863.
You know that red mist thing where you find yourself punching some inoffensive article of furniture for no better reason than that you have just banged into it?
In other clips, he acted inoffensively, if goofily. Week in Ideas
Nothing here is damning, but the whole affair ultimately drifts by inoffensively and unmemorably.
He was a familiar sight around the town where his kind and inoffensive disposition endeared him to all.
He is a mild, inoffensive man.
John Flint knew inoffensive, timid Michael; he knew his broad-bosomed, patient, cowlike wife, and he liked the brood of shockheaded youngsters who plodded along patient in old clothes, bare-footed, and with scanty enough food. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
He's spent his political career as a relatively inoffensive which is saying something in Illinois glorified accountant. "This is all politics and theater, but I am the junior senator according to every law book in the nation."
The music throughout is nonvocal, so there's little distraction, and is fairly generic dance-style music that most viewers should find inoffensive.
They are one of America's most inoffensive, milquetoast pop groups.
What tends to deprave or corrupt one person may prove perfectly inoffensive to another.
Still, it is inoffensive and harmless, and even a little bit cute in its own way.
What's remarkable is how remarkably filthy the drydown smells on my skin, not animalic-filthy like musk or civet but more like mineral-rooty-filthy...whatever it is in the inoffensive-sounding base of vanilla, amber, marron glace ! and sandalwood that makes it smell up to good I do not know. Archive 2009-03-01
I don't see a problem - he wears inoffensive casual clothes that don't always fit properly.
Continue to look at them and their placid, inoffensive appearance draws you in with a curious and unexpected power.
They offer inoffensive and untaxing humour; the trouble is, it is also so safe and undistinctive it risks being unmemorable. Times, Sunday Times
As this was beyond the capacity of the drubber of sheepskin, he was fain to have recourse to the inoffensive row-de - dow as a harmless substitute for the sacred music which his instrument or skill were unable to achieve. Waverley — Complete
He may be thinking about adopting Washington, a city stultified by decades of colorless, inoffensive architecture. Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
A completely inoffensive French wine. Times, Sunday Times
However, those blinded by love may feel that Pink Pink Fizz's ripe, lively, appley, inoffensive cava bubbly is not highbrow enough for their tastes, in which case champagne's the thing.
What School Disco largely deals in is not nostalgia, but inoffensive, singalong pop and rock hits, the sort of thing you'd find on your average pub jukebox.
A cool restrained world of subtle lighting and blond wood, air-conditioned, sanitised and utterly inoffensive.
I smile politely at the woman and say something vague and inoffensive, such as'Really? Times, Sunday Times
The letters require tactful, delicate, inoffensive, non-confrontational responses.
Of a quiet, kind and inoffensive disposition, she was a real lady.
Whereas the Caingwas may be described as inoffensive Indians, the inhabitants of the Chaco are _savages_, hostile to the white man, who only here and there, with their permission, has settled on the river bank. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
The film is entirely inoffensive, so it makes for perfect family fare - but only if the children are young enough to be indiscriminating about what they're seeing.
Ollie, who was well known to all, was a quiet inoffensive man and his popularity was evidenced by the large concourse of mourners who attended the funeral.
that wretched beast, the elephant, breathing inoffensively not a pace behind me
A navy two-piece with an inoffensive hat should help the day pass without incident.
Keene was at no loss to recall inoffensive phrases; in another long speech, full of cajolery sufficiently artful for the occasion, he represented himself as having merely protested against misrepresentations obviously sharpened by malice. Demos
The movie is pretty inoffensive in the sense that jokes are not mean-spirited, there's no toilet humor and there's not really a whole lot of violence.
The contemporary "avenger" slays, not the merely great, but the good and the inoffensive -- an American President who had struck the chains from millions of slaves; a Russian Czar who against the will and work of his own powerful nobles had freed their serfs; a French President from whom the French people had received nothing but good; a powerless Austrian The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
In many cases, inoffensive people are injured in unprovoked assaults.
Gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, vertuous and communicable, then by a fond ostentation of riches; or (wanting these Vertues my self) boast that these were in my Ancestors; [And yet I confesse, that where a noble and ancient Descent and such Merits meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person:] and so, if this The Compleat Angler
The debates was little more than a cosy session of swapping inoffensive historical anecdotes about libraries.
Farm labourers [in the Vale of Gloucester] are sufficiently numerous; they are noticeable as being simple, inoffensive, unintelligent, and apparently slow.
a marsupial which lives in thick, dark forests, where it feeds upon leaves and fruit; and the tarsier, a kind of jerboa, a very harmless, inoffensive little animal with reddish-coloured hair, about the size of a rat, but whose body bears some resemblance to that of an ape. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
He is too sweet, too nice, too inoffensive for the dig at hypocrisy to hit home, and many of the jokes lack the audacious punch of old.
It is not difficult to make something look passable, average or inoffensive. Times, Sunday Times
Here are the sunlit landscapes and the inoffensive still lives; here are the pet cats and the brightly coloured posies. Times, Sunday Times
But keepers of the Coldplay and Travis flames will warm to its inoffensiveness, its unobtrusiveness and its lack of challenge.
As a result, starry-eyed inoffensiveness bubbles up and wins the awards, which reward maximum agreeability. Times, Sunday Times
He's a mild inoffensive man.
The emcees (Abdominal, D-Sisive) try to impart some wisdom on the listener, but not in any sincere way - more as an effort to appear well read or vaguely revolutionary (in an inoffensive manner).
Even fish are transformed from a mass of scales, bones, eyes and heads into a neat, inoffensive and anonymous fillet.
There is also a small, clumsy, inoffensive animal called the wombat, which is never found outside of these Australian regions. Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
Papers tended to be reduced to the lowest common denominator, inoffensive to any service, even before they reached the chiefs themselves, where the necessity for unanimous agreement caused them to be denatured even further.
The result is a highly inoffensive, passable sound which has its interesting, if unremarkable, moments.
On the face Gibraltar and Ceuta should be totally inoffensive. Eric Lurio: Thoughts on a Gibraltar Street Fair
I smile politely at the woman and say something vague and inoffensive, such as'Really? Times, Sunday Times
inoffensive behavior
Tracks like ‘Love steals us from loneliness’ may be over-calculated, but their safeness means they are entirely inoffensive and even enjoyable in spurts.
This inoffensive-looking car can scorch along at impressive figures, and, as it is based on a chassis with a decent set of dimensions, it has real space for adults in the back.
Brownsville was about the rowdiest town of Texas, which was the most lawless state in the Confederacy; but they declared they had never seen an inoffensive man subjected to insult or annoyance, although the shooting-down and stringing-up systems are much in vogue, being almost a necessity in a thinly-populated state, much frequented by desperadoes driven away from more civilised countries. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863
Is it because they're relatively cheap, relatively inoffensive and relatively interesting? Times, Sunday Times
The present sign on a wall is inoffensive, out of the way and informs the public that here is to be found something which is necessary and desirable.
A man of impeccable character, his quiet and inoffensive manner endeared him to all who had the pleasure of knowing him.
But he will make the final just by being nice and inoffensive. The Sun
The drink was served in a wine glass, straight up, no ice and tasted inoffensive.
A religious group that could effectively weed out offensive people, the Friends found slave owners sufficiently inoffensive.
It was too quiet and inoffensive looking. Christianity Today
It is not difficult to make something look passable, average or inoffensive. Times, Sunday Times
My weeny merguez, resting flaccidly on couscous, franked the inoffensiveness form, while another, fatter nine quid banger, "the Beaujolaise" – an amalgam of pork, mushroom, onion and bacon – seemed less a sausage than a loose coalition struggling to coexist amicably under the one skin. Restaurant: Bar Boulud, London SW1
A completely inoffensive French wine. Times, Sunday Times
She had a cold and a smear of phosphorescent snot lay on her upper lip, a hapless, inoffensive leak that I was responsible for. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
As this was beyond the capacity of the drubber of sheepskin, he was fain to have recourse to the inoffensive row-de-dow, as a harmless substitute for the sacred music which his instrument or skill were unable to achieve. The Waverley
It was too quiet and inoffensive looking. Christianity Today
So decidedly are amiability and mildness their characteristics, that I confess I look upon that youth who distinguished himself by the slaughter of these inoffensive persons, as a false-hearted brigand, who, pretending to philanthropic motives, was secretly influenced only by the wealth stored up within their castles, and the hope of plunder. American Notes for General Circulation
The whole experience was offensively inoffensive - mechanically brilliant but creatively dead.
I presume the aim is to provide an atmosphere that is inoffensively opulent, timeless and bland, so that nothing distracts you from thinking about the sensation in your mouth.
I took leave of him with regret. his gaiety is inoffensive, & our intimacy at Lisbon created many ideas & associations which he only partakes. this evening he will be at Bath; & I hope my mothers affairs will now be settled comfortably; the plan of settling them once fixed, I expect her here. Letter 247
If you were being polite you'd call it inoffensive. TV review: Holiday Hijack; Sugartown
All concerned were determined that the document should be as bland and inoffensive as possible. Times, Sunday Times
The songs manage to be sharp and aggressive at the same time as being inoffensive guitar pop. The Sun
But what perplexed us most was to think who could be so base as to asperse the character of a family so harmless as ours, too humble to excite envy, and too inoffensive to create disgust. The Vicar of Wakefield
It's funny that to get anything done in the Puget Sound, you have to exhibit these schizophrenic qualities so as to have a broad and "inoffensive" appeal. Sound Politics: Kitsap County Foot-Ferry Tax
a refreshing inoffensive stimulant
It is noteworthy that while liberals have been able to lampoon and persecute traditional Roman Catholics over the years; deny them authentic use of their churches for The Mass of All Times and who have calumniated them for other alleged misdemeanours, there are those who would take exception to your remarks here which pale in comparison and are entirely inoffensive. The Society of Scholastics -- online courses about to start
But he will make the final just by being nice and inoffensive. The Sun
What's remarkable is how remarkably filthy the drydown smells on my skin, not animalic-filthy like musk or civet but more like mineral-rooty-filthy...whatever it is in the inoffensive-sounding base of vanilla, amber, marron glace ! and sandalwood that makes it smell up to good I do not know. Tom Ford Champaca Absolute: Perfume Review
What I am not, however, able to accept is that "shvartze" is a harmless, inoffensive term for blacks. Www.philadelphiaweekly.com Philadelphia Weekly
He seemed like a quiet, inoffensive sort of a guy.
Continue to look at them and their placid, inoffensive appearance draws you in with a curious and unexpected power.
The result is a highly inoffensive, passable sound which has its interesting, if unremarkable, moments.
Like an archeologist, he must go to the primary source, see the notes written in the margins, witness the Catholic imprimatur approving the publication of naturalist writings deemed inoffensive to the church, and the painstaking post-hoc censorship of Konrad Gesner's name from his Historia animalium , not because he wrote anything offensive in that book, but because he had offended the church in general. Ideonexus.com »2007» februar
However the whole album is rather playful and inoffensive.
That these inoffensively dull tracks are collected as a Big Statement, something the artist has longed to get off his chest, is a little depressing - and not in a good way.
My husband was, as always, in charge of drinks and music and once the small sherries had been decanted he selected some light inoffensive background dross.
Of a kind and inoffensive disposition she died as she had lived ever so quietly and peacefully.
The gentleman pleaded for himself, that "in truth" was a word inoffensive, even in his judgment who accused him. Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
Here he portrayed his wife, not as mild or inoffensive, but as argumentative and idle.
Also I suspect at least some of the selections were carefully vetted by campaign staffers to be as inoffensive as possible.
Because of the grace and inoffensiveness which marked his delineative work, his writings possess an enduring quality, and they will long be read with increasing interest, pleasure and profit. Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries
A woman of great religious beliefs she was of a most inoffensive nature and was very popular in the local community.
On the other side of the room, a DJ spins some inoffensive Motown choons.
As this was beyond the capacity of the drubber of sheepskin, he was fain to have recourse to the inoffensive row-de-dow as a harmless substitute for the sacred music which his instrument or skill were unable to achieve. Waverley
a quiet inoffensive man
The songs manage to be sharp and aggressive at the same time as being inoffensive guitar pop. The Sun
The vocals and instrumentation are inoffensively charming and at times memorable.
That unfortunate animal when he is uncarted at the spot where the meet takes place, generally makes a point, I am told, of making away at a cool trot, venturesomely followed by the whole field, to the yard where he lives, and there subsides into a quiet and inoffensive existence, until he is again brought out to be again followed by exactly the same field, under exactly the same circumstances, next Easter Monday. Speeches: Literary and Social
He was a kind, quiet, inoffensive man who was a wonderful neighbour.
There are, in those restaurants, as there are in public gardens and railway trains, people embodied in a quite ordinary appearance, whose name astonishes us when, having happened to ask it, we discover that this is not the mere inoffensive stranger whom we supposed but nothing less than the Minister or Duke of whom we have so often heard. Within a Budding Grove

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