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Adjective: inoffensive  `inu'fensiv
  1. Not causing anger or annoyance
    "inoffensive behaviour"
    - unoffending
     
  2. Giving no offence
    "a quiet inoffensive man"; "a refreshing inoffensive stimulant"
     
  3. Substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one
    - euphemistic

See also: distastefulness, innocuous, inoffensively, odiousness, offenceless [Brit, Cdn], offenseless [US], offensiveness, unobjectionable

Antonym: offensive

Encyclopedia: Inoffensive

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