INOFFENSIVE

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.

2.
a.

Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden.

3.
a.

Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. [R.] Milton. So have Iseen a river gintly glide In a smooth course, and inoffensive tide. Addison. -- In"of*fen"sive*ly, adv. -- In"of*fen"sive*ness, n.

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