innocuously

Example Sentences

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He sneaked in “I’m not a good person” so innocuously that the old me would have overlooked it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2024

The December day in 2021 that set off a revolution across the videogame industry appeared to start innocuously enough.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2024

The panel said while individually the messages "appear to start innocuously" by December 2017 the "tone and content" had taken an "intense and personal turn" and had become "disturbing in nature".

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2023

The rally started innocuously enough with Luis Torrens and Jared Kelenic each reaching on infield base hits with one out.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2022

Then the lechuzas, all thirteen of them, vanished into thin air, leaving only downy feathers floating innocuously in the rays of the morning sun.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall