Words similar to anodyne
Example sentences for: anodyne
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All this is so anodyne as to be completely unobjectionable.
In theory, John Hope Franklin is the perfect chair for an anodyne exercise in racial reconciliation.
But after about an hour of anodyne sentiments, Rahm Emanuel, a Clinton political adviser more pugnacious than the others, couldn't take it any more.
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.
Because this is the problem: In the face of our postwar, retail, mobile, corporate culture, democracy is not only a seemingly ineffectual anodyne to social blight; it becomes a part of the problem.