Example sentences for: inoffensive

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

  • One cannot easily translate these pejorative suffixes into English: they are a malignly ingenious way of turning an otherwise perfectly inoffensive name into an inherently insulting one, of saying James , for instance, in such a sneering way that no add-on adjectives are needed to convey your obvious but unspecified disdain.

  • In the '60s, an Englishman named Terence Conran opened a store in London called Habitat, selling what has come to be called "transitional" furniture--mixable pieces so neutral and inoffensive they could fit into any environment.

  • Finn's awkwardness keeps him inoffensive, but it thoroughly obviates the dramatic arc that's the whole point of Dickens' novel: If success doesn't change Finn for the worse, then his rejection of the high life doesn't entail the same kind of sacrifices--or come as a consequence of some harrowing epiphany.

  • The online sites are mass-market operations, and they are infected with an inoffensive corporate blandness.

  • That's why, as a campaign manager, I advise my candidates to be sexually unthreatening, have very little body hair, and possess voices that can effortlessly lift an inoffensive pop tune well into the soprano register.


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