innoxious

Example Sentences

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As a pigment, zinc white may be said to be innoxious.

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

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

The true criterion is, not whether the Government, or an individual may supply the article, but whether the article itself be noxious or innoxious.

From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael

It looked so innoxious that she plucked some fruit, ate it, took some water in the hollow of her hands and drank.

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

It can be rendered innoxious only by striking at its roots!

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne