anodyne

How To Use anodyne In A Sentence

• No matter how anodyne, fatuous, sensible or irrelevant. Times, Sunday Times
• I'd rather stand for something than be anodyne. TOP MARKETING AND MEDIA COMPANIES IN THE UK
• The answer must be yes; for if he cannot, the courts will become the province of those anodyne centrists whose views don't offend anyone with power.
• Something anodyne about turning away from sin and rejecting evil. Times, Sunday Times
• This debut album is breathtakingly anodyne stuff.
• Somehow this avoids being just another silly pop song with anodyne lyrics about love and happiness.
• So, instead, we got a relatively neutral, anodyne report from the committee.
• As a noun, the English "anodyne" means "something that relieves pain," as you said, and as an adjective it means "pain-relieving. Anodin - French Word-A-Day
• She had this quote in her convention speech, a kind of anodyne quote about how small towns are good. CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2008
• (AT 84) Instead of merely being quaint and anachronistic technologies harnessed to an anodyne future, we can re-conceptualise and re-pathologise space vehicles. Ballardian » Better Living through Psychopathology