Sentence examples for innocent term from inspiring English sources

She may have wanted to downplay the importance of the relationship, with a self-consciously quaint and rather innocent term.

Necklacing was the deceptively innocent term for putting a petrol-soaked burning tyre around a perceived traitor's neck.

I wasn't sure why I was so worked up about this seemingly innocent term.

My favorites of the Our Gang short films of 75 and 80 years ago (back when "gang" was an innocent term), were the ones where Spanky McFarland became a 9 year-old Ziegfeld, and staged big shows full of all-kid casts on make-shift stages.

There are, on the other hand, a few relatively innocent terms, like the synonyms for breasts: jehoshaphats, ba-boos, wazookies, ka-hogas and of course gabongas.

The word 'casting' and the word 'couch' are innocent terms," Fred Shapiro, editor of the authoritative Yale Book of Quotations, told HuffPost.

Mr. Bonds's lawyer, Michael Rains, said his client was innocent and termed the charges "ridiculous".

Rabin notes it was "an innocent-sounding term that heralded one of the worst periods in American-Israeli relations".

The UN has cautiously welcomed a deal from the Syrian government to allow what it terms "innocent civilians" to leave besieged areas of the city of Homs.

And, of course, Kaplan is a young manager, still innocent of long-term bear markets, and prone to bull-market-baby syndrome.

They are only just behind Innocent Smoothies in terms of teeth-grinding twee, mistakenly giving-off the impression that their target audience is C-student boarding school girls on the cusp of puberty.