inoffensive

Example Sentences

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All of a Familiar’s behaviors are intended to be approachable and inoffensive, says Morgan Pope, a Familiar Machines roboticist who spent almost eight years at Disney Research.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

One of them is a title so generic, so blandly inoffensive yet simultaneously indicative of hope, resolve, or insider knowledge as to be, ultimately, unmemorable.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

In a victim personal statement, the victim's brother, John Blackwood, said she was the "hub of the family... affable, inoffensive" and had many friends.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

But that also affirms her as a real person as opposed to a flattened personality, one who is inoffensive, a little twee and unbothered about being an amateur with A-list chefs on speed dial.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2025

She had come with a gentleman by the name of Gouvemail, connected with one of the daily papers, of whom nothing special could be said, except that he was observant and seemed quiet and inoffensive.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin