All of those inoffensive words and phrases could have been uttered by predecessor Philip Clarke.
It's a soft, inoffensive word – you stroke a baby or a lover – but a lethal affliction.
His lips certainly parted each time he rose, and the Congressional Record for that day indicates that he spoke 36 unusually inoffensive words.
In what should have been a relatively inoffensive word association game published on Buzzfeed, the superstar was asked to give her opinion on a number of subjects from Crocs to Instagram.
The tendency to avoid such words has been described by the Yale linguist Larry Horn as a variant of Gresham's Law (bad money driving out good), in which an offensive word drives out an inoffensive word that sounds like it -- verbal guilt by association.
Three little, some may say, inoffensive words that perhaps embodies the selfie and the blurb that accompanied it.
Free Acres, New Jersey, US is best described by those quaint, inoffensive words used to whet the appetites of suburbanites in search of peace and tranquility: verdant, unspoiled, wholesome and uncorrupted.
Free Acres, NJ is best described by those quaint, inoffensive words used to whet the appetites of suburbanites in search of peace and tranquility: verdant, unspoiled, wholesome, and uncorrupted.
Science and journalism have struggled to explain why people hate this specific, relatively inoffensive word and come up with a number of theories: that the combination of phonemes, especially "oi," sounds unpleasant, or that it's associated with grimy bodily functions like sweating and... well, worse.
It has flames, flatulence and inoffensive four-letter words.
The word sounds so inoffensive, a synonym for "brush" or "caress".
