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unthreatening

ADJECTIVE
  1. not unfriendly or threatening
    the exasperation of a...well-meaning cow worried by dogs
    her well-meaning words were received in silence

How To Use unthreatening In A Sentence

  • If you can now go and sit with your friends and have a coffee in a comfortable, open and unthreatening environment then younger people and more women may well be tempted in.
  • The bamboo reacted benignly, growing replacements in a most unthreatening manner and generally seeming to know its place.
  • From an apparently unthreatening position, 30 yards out on the left, he spotted a gap and promptly fired the ball into the top left corner of the goal.
  • The new and improved line of attack is to dichotomize war opponents by, first, issuing the most back-handed of compliments to those who were anti-war all along – the unthreatening, marginalized “Michael Moore crowd.” Archive 2005-11-01
  • It is a familiar sombreness, unthreatening but omniscient, like the dour old man in the corner, terrifying the children with his dark warnings, but thrilling to approach, to reach towards with a tentative hand.
  • America's Blink 182 are rude and foulmouthed and loutish, but still entirely unthreatening and immaculately tailored to appeal to a teen audience.
  • But the graveyard was as empty and unthreatening as it had been when I arrived, and the tattered man was nowhere to be seen. NIGHT SISTERS
  • He tells me single thirty-something women like it here because it's unthreatening, it's good fun and they love the music (which ranges from Abba to Dean Martin to Elvis to music from The Jungle Book).
  • He was positioned by his commercial handlers as saintly, unifying, pacifistic and unthreatening. Times, Sunday Times
  • He lends Pseudolus his own brand of roguish geniality: even the moment when his eyes lasciviously follow a courtesan's rotating hips is purged of offence by his unthreatening charm.
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