Example sentences for: innocuous

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

  • Later, Representative Jenkins referred to a profit-making business , which sounds harsher than if he had chosen to say profit-making enterprise . But “proceed-producing enterprise” would have sounded even more innocuous.

  • Trophies of war--from helmets, bayonets, and other innocuous spoils to the grisly byproducts of dismemberment--have a long, if not proud, history.

  • How many people need words like desiccate, didactic, innocuous, immutable , etc., when dry up, instructive, harmless , and unchanging or unchangeable are around?

  • Liberals, on the other hand, spend less time defending affirmative action than they do trying to make it innocuous and invisible.

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


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