INNOCUOUS


Meaning of INNOCUOUS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

seemingly innocuous/innocent (= seeming unlikely to cause any problems )

Even seemingly innocuous questions can get an employer into trouble.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

seemingly

Whatever censorship takes place in libraries, even of seemingly innocuous indecent material, can reverberate elsewhere.

Even seemingly innocuous turnstile-exits with interlocking horizontal bars give my sister pause, however.

Some were communiqu s from extremist groups overseas; others were seemingly innocuous .

It behooves companies to tread carefully in this area because even seemingly innocuous questions can get them into trouble.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

innocuous chemicals

Someone stood up and asked the professor an apparently innocuous question about his laboratory work.

The interviewer only asked boring, innocuous questions.

The murder suspect was an innocuous -looking man with wire-framed glasses.

The producer dismissed the comment as quite innocuous .

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