Sentence examples similar to inoffensive phrasing from inspiring English sources
That context can mean that a seemingly inoffensive phrase is, in fact, offensive.
That inoffensive-seeming phrase actually contains within it the means to destroy an entire civilisation, with its divorces, its free love and its unmarried cohabitation, its geriatric pregnancies and its newborn babies using iPads in their incubators.
All of those inoffensive words and phrases could have been uttered by predecessor Philip Clarke.
Luz and my mother went through the protocols of a civilized visit: inoffensive questions, anodyne chitchat, the usual phrases and gestures intended to fill up space rather than convey meaning.
But, unless you were a member of the Conservative Party (who have nothing but "misery on offer") or the "commentariat" ("Cut out the personal abuse," he told them), it was a mostly inoffensive speech, padded with soft-focus phrases like "kinder politics" and "caring society," and obviously intended to take the edge off his public persona.
Expletive began as padding; a word or phrase to fill up a line, often an inoffensive oath like "by gum," but has added the sense of an exclamation or outcry interjected for emphasis.
This, by itself, is inoffensive (though it does seem unfortunate that Cleopatra, a young black girl, greets her playmate with the phrase "cool, baby").
"Absolutely harmless, inoffensive person.
