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Example sentences for: anodyne
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In theory, John Hope Franklin is the perfect chair for an anodyne exercise in racial reconciliation.
Oddly enough, a century ago we did much the same thing with a rude Dutch term, pappekak , which we anglicized into the anodyne poppycock .
Where the old Newt was a compelling meanie, the new one offers anodyne platitudes and empty uplift.
They came thick and fast, starting Saturday in the Times of London, which disclosed that Melita Norwood (code name "Hola") had passed atomic secrets to the Soviet Union for 40 years while she worked as a secretary for the Tube Alloys project, a deliberately anodyne term for Britain's nuclear weapons program.
All this is so anodyne as to be completely unobjectionable.
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