(a.) Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
(a.) Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the mouthrinses containing 0.05% NaF the retention was about 0.4 mg F. This value is considered to be harmless.
(2) A harmless slice of Americana from the best fans in the world.
(3) Most hemangiomas are small, harmless birthmarks that appear soon after birth, proliferate for 8 to 18 months, and then slowly regress over the next 5 to 8 years, leaving normal or slightly blemished skin.
(4) Pelvic phleboliths are common and are generally considered to be harmless.
(5) It also intrigues me that the reaction of some women when challenged on this question so uncannily echoes the defence of sexist men in the 60s and 70s: come off it, love, it's just a bit of harmless fun.
(6) The high frequency of coxa magna in these patients and its possible role in the development of degenerative arthritis indicate that transient synovitis of the hip should not be considered a harmless disease until further epidemiologic studies are available.
(7) The activity and harmlessness of the virus was tested on sheep.
(8) The adults of the trematode occurring in the nasal sinuses and posterior nasal passage of the dolphins are considered as practically harmless for the host but thier eggs, aspirated deep into the bronchial tree, may initiate a foreign-body of inflammatory reaction in the lungs and continuous aspiration of such eggs may provoke a chronic pneumonia condition.
(9) Of all patients examined during that period for palpable breast tumors, 90 (=16.5%) were spared a breast operation thanks to fine-needle aspirations confirming the presence of harmless cysts only.
(10) They show once more that the treatment is harmless for the fetus.
(11) They are usually harmless, though they can cause an allergic reaction in a minority of people.
(12) Hepatic vascular exclusion (from 24 to 30mn) was harmless to the remnant liver and the kidneys.
(13) As regards post-therapeutic monitoring, MRI with gadolinium contrast injection is harmless and will make it possible to follow these patients regularly and to detect recurrences.
(14) CT, being a non-traumatic, harmless diagnostic method, improves the clinical evaluation of the patient and can facilitate the choice of the most suitable therapeutic modalities, as well as the follow-up of their results.
(15) Symptoms of bleeding, almost always harmless skin or mucosal bleeding, were found in 45% of patients with a history of intravenous drug abuse and in 18% of the homo- or bisexual men.
(16) A paradigm shift has occurred in which toxicity has been recognized at levels long held to be harmless.
(17) These results suggest that elevated glycine levels may be harmless in blood, but lethal in brain.
(18) It is superior to many other methods since it is non-invasive, harmless, and does not rely on the metabolism of a contrast agent.
(19) With equal reliability (96 percent), lumbar phlebography without catheterism is, by its simplicity and harmlessness and the absence of minor and major venous complications, preferable to phlebography by catheterism.
(20) The nature of the fistulous connection makes the release of the balloon inflated with silicone completely harmless.
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”.