(a.) Any medicine which allays pain, as an opiate or narcotic; anything that soothes disturbed feelings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of its long-time use as a sedative or anodyne in dental procedures, eugenol was studied to determine its effect on evoked nerve impulse transmission.
(2) After a period on Radio Luxembourg he was offered the freelance job of disc jockey on the radio programme Housewives' Choice, on which Jacobs had to play record requests and punctuate them with anodyne chat.
(3) Mr Johnson referred to the anodyne press statement released the previous day, without reference to the gathering political storm and public outcry to the treatment of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
(4) Some of the tension was punctured on Monday after Zardari and the prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, met the army chief, General Kayani, after which they released an anodyne statement about flood relief.
(5) I see Dylan Jones, a Cameron fan, has written a book on Live Aid, defining the 80s as caring: more anodyne revision.
(6) In terms of time required for anodyne administration, the Infusor group required significantly less time compared with the intermittent infusion group (P less than 0.05).
(7) I expected an anodyne but warm response about talent pipelines, mentoring and nurturing potential.
(8) Iglesias looked oddly out of place in this pristine but anodyne new home, with its hotel-style fitted carpets and shiny wooden doors.
(9) The president’s first speech, in 2009, was more anodyne.
(10) The growth rate is very low, so that the first symptoms, as hoarseness or dyspnea, may be anodyne.
(11) The bite restorer combines the strength of Vitallium with the occlusal acceptability of Anodyne to produce an esthetic and functional orthotic without the ill effects of cast metallic overlays.
(12) While hit shows such as Queer as Folk (anodyne and sexless in its US version), Will and Grace and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy have been important steps in acquainting American viewers with homo reality, The L Word is a huge leap forward, dealing with lesbian life as it is lived, albeit with a Hollywood gloss.
(13) They encouraged other firms that had funded the blacklist, disguised under the anodyne name of the Consulting Association and run from a nondescript office in Droitwich, Worcestershire, to join the scheme.
(14) Stewart recounts one big disappointment – an anodyne interview with Donald Rumsfeld in 2011 that failed to claim the former secretary of defence’s scalp.
(15) It even has, in "winter vomiting bug", an anodyne pet name.
(16) The smog even led the flagship evening news bulletin on television, which traditionally begins with an anodyne account of leaders' activities and achievements.
(17) She was treated with anodyne and benzbromarone for gout.
(18) They include cognitive and behavioral intervention techniques in part already well known that can accompany and enhance traditional forms of anodyne therapy.
(19) She agreed that, as a freelance, she had sold information to the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Daily Star, Guardian, Sun and The People, but said it was anodyne and bland.
(20) But many of the policies they describe are either too technical (allowing dual citizenship) or too anodyne (the existence of a government body to consult minorities) to stimulate serious tax resistance.
Inoffensive
Definition:
(a.) Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.
(a.) Harmless; doing no injury or mischief.
(a.) Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Associated Newspapers argued that they were entirely innocuous and inoffensive images taken in public places and that the Wellers had previously chosen to open up their private family life to public gaze to a significant degree.
(2) Just wide expanses of inoffensive pleasantness so strong that if any of the bloody really jolly nice people on the show were to drop their grins, their overexerted jowls would fall straight into their cake mix.
(3) Microphlebography is an inoffensive examination which is easy to perform and useful in treating telangiectasia using this personal technique of micro-coagulo-surgery.
(4) He should have said: “We don’t want to be like Belgium, but the press should calm down and recognise that the Queen’s government goes on normally while we take the necessary days to consider how best to form the programme for a new government.” Nick Clegg – the inoffensive ordinary guy who could have been great Read more 3 As party leader, Clegg puzzled us all by ignoring the more senior members of his Commons team including Campbell, Alan Beith, Malcolm Bruce, Simon Hughes and Kennedy.
(5) For some of Facebook’s algorithmic tweaks, their goal is clear, articulated, and inoffensive: it has managed to increase the number of organ donors ; it’s managed to boost turnout at US , Indian and Brazilian elections; and, obviously, it’s managed to make a few billion dollars from advertising.
(6) They also wanted to make a show that was warm and gentle but not inoffensive and dull.
(7) Suárez has been mostly inoffensive year: no charges of racism, no gnawing on opponents' arms.
(8) All intelligence reformers have felt strongly this data collection is not an inoffensive activity,” Wyden said.
(9) The secret science bill would require the EPA to release the data it uses to devise regulations – an aim seemingly inoffensive enough, except that the EPA often relies on confidential medical records whose release could land it in court.
(10) Both wear a British approximation of a Riviera look – chinos, light blazers, inoffensive shirts and soft shoes, and are in deep discussion about how best to seduce young Italian women.
(11) In order to ensure a certain diagnosis and to avoid exploratory surgery as far as possible, the authors propose systematic needle puncture of the inververtebral disk--a technique that is simple and inoffensive to carry out in all disks below T4, and that, in a series of 18 cases, gave a success rate of 2 out of 3 (11 positive results).
(12) In sum, free speech is not intended to protect benign, uncontroversial, or inoffensive ideas.
(13) The word sounds so inoffensive, a synonym for "brush" or "caress".
(14) Even I, as an inoffensive left-leaning (and, incidentally, anti-bombing) academic historian, have been subjected to this kind of thing, in comments below the line of articles or blogs I’ve published.
(15) The movies that do get official approval and release tend to be inoffensive comedies and historical action movies catering to a youth audience.
(16) TICAs may enlarge in time and, seemingly inoffensive, may rupture and lead to death.
(17) The term "waste stabilization pond" in its simplest form is applied to a body of water, artificial or natural, employed with the intention of retaining sewage or organic waste waters until the wastes are rendered stable and inoffensive for discharge into receiving waters or on land, through physical, chemical and biological processes commonly referred to as "self-purification" and involving the symbiotic action of algae and bacteria under the influence of sunlight and air.
(18) Femen aren't subtle, they aren't inoffensive, and they certainly aren't sorry.
(19) For intensive pig units on limited land close to houses, the NIAE has evolved a new system of slurry treatment which can convert all the slurry from a fattening piggery into inoffensive solids.
(20) The regulator took into account the BBC’s argument that the use of the term was intended as “an inoffensive, humorous play on words”.