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innocuousness

/ih-nok-yoo-uhs/US // ɪˈnɒk yu əs //UK // (ɪˈnɒkjʊəs) //

无害化,无害,无害性,无辜

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
    • : not likely to irritate or offend; inoffensive; an innocuous remark.
    • : not interesting, stimulating, or significant; pallid; insipid: an innocuous novel.

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Examples

  • The adventure in the Scoop scared him for a while into innocuousness; then he resumed his game again with redoubled zest.

  • On the universal innocuousness of the vegetation of the Sea, consult Pouchet's Botanique a work of the highest order.

  • This is erroneous and is based upon the assumed inefficacy and innocuousness of judicial injunctions.

  • Recent utterances about the innocuousness of Australian snake-poison find a fitting answer in this melancholy occurrence.

  • This sheepish innocuousness comes easily to the natively uninitiative, to those who are readily amenable to fear and prohibitions.