innoxious

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It enables you to discover that riches and titles do not confer merit; you think comparatively little of them; and, as far as relates to you, at any rate, their insolence is innoxious.

From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by Cobbett, William

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

To other good attributes of pigments, it would be well if we could in all cases add the property of being innoxious.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

If, on the contrary, we observe the natural defects of aristocracy, we shall find that their influence is comparatively innoxious in the direction of the external affairs of a state.

From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de

We have endeavored to be authentic, and to present matter, which, if it sometimes fail to impart knowledge or instruction, or convey a moral lesson, will, at least, be innoxious.

From Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea by Brayman, James O.