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be anodyne
noun
Any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.
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If you are trying to be popular you'll be anodyne.
Sometimes it is not easy to be anodyne.
The pretext may be anodyne: a health and safety check, a tax audit.
Candidates are required by law to lay out their "mission, vision and programme", but their ideas tend to be anodyne and uniform.
What the aspirants instead hear, during the roughly 120 seconds each is given to present herself to a specially selected panel, are phrases polite and generic enough to be anodyne.
Those tend to be anodyne affairs where the person in the hot seat tries to stay cool while not saying anything that could prove damaging, often in the face of grandstanding on senators' pet issues.
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Overall, it's "anodyne".
The boys' answers are anodyne and noncommittal.
The song is anodyne, safe and bland.
Buergel's foreward is anodyne and barely a page long.
Her jokes are anodyne, the irony unhoned: "You know these mounted cops?
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