adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
seemingly innocuous/innocent (= seeming unlikely to cause any problems )
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Even seemingly innocuous questions can get an employer into trouble.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
seemingly
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Whatever censorship takes place in libraries, even of seemingly innocuous indecent material, can reverberate elsewhere.
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Even seemingly innocuous turnstile-exits with interlocking horizontal bars give my sister pause, however.
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Some were communiqu s from extremist groups overseas; others were seemingly innocuous .
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It behooves companies to tread carefully in this area because even seemingly innocuous questions can get them into trouble.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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innocuous chemicals
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Someone stood up and asked the professor an apparently innocuous question about his laboratory work.
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The interviewer only asked boring, innocuous questions.
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The murder suspect was an innocuous -looking man with wire-framed glasses.
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The producer dismissed the comment as quite innocuous .