inoffensively

The creeping alien force constantly wrapping its tentacles around the dialogue in “Wrong Way” is the inoffensively postconservative, universalist rhetoric of contemporary business development.

“Just trying to slowly and hopefully inoffensively upgrade the aesthetic of the town,” Dix said.

Bonus: When both have proved over time their willingness to put the friendship’s interests above their own sometimes, it’s easier for one of them to say inoffensively, “Whoo, I need a night with adults.”

When it was dinnertime, Nathan set the plates as inoffensively as possible.

Another: the overly careful and inoffensively middlebrow tone.