innoxious

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This innoxious and ineffectual character, that seems formed upon a plan of apology and disculpation, falls miserably short of the mark of public duty.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

I wish I could render the incentives to every other equally innoxious in his case.’

From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne

One independent state is declared incompetent to prescribe to another, so long as that state is innoxious to its neighbours.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

All things in this his fulminating bull are not of so innoxious a tendency.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

I am sure that the principles predominant in France extend to very many persons, and descriptions of persons, in all countries, who think their innoxious indolence their security.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund