Example sentences for: innocuous

How can you use “innocuous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The most embarrassing Portuguese malapropism I committed took place in Brazil, where terms innocuous in continental Portuguese have transmuted into dangerous slang.

  • In the last analysis, it makes little difference how sterile, clinical, or innocuous the words selected might be, for the terminology attracts adverse connotations owing to many factors, not the least of which is prejudice.

  • It's just that Vogue 's latest scheme strikes us as an unusually innocuous way to pander.

  • These investigators have found that the apparently suspicious consistently proved innocuous.

  • EGFP itself is not an innocuous protein.


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