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.
The choreographer David Parsons creates modern-dance works that are apparently designed to be accessible, appealing, inoffensive and — often enough — both sexy and athletically exciting.
Italy's pinot grigio is most often light, crisp and inoffensive, while Alsace's tokay can be floral, rich and highly aromatic.
That's when German and English tourists bring it home from the grocery and get "intoxicated"—seeing as the fish is often sold under the inoffensive label of "sea bream".
Myopia is the speciality of the foreign-language film Oscar, which is often given to something bland and inoffensive rather than what posterity might be eyeing up: The Secret in Their Eyes beating both The White Ribbon and A Prophet in 2010, and the Japanese film Departures over The Class the year before are just a couple of recent bungles.
Often I wish I was from somewhere inoffensive to anyone, neutral, unproblematic.
The short-horned grasshopper (family Acrididae, formerly Locustidae) includes both inoffensive, nonmigratory species and the often-destructive, swarming, migratory species known as locust.
Brave has a certain inoffensive charm, sometimes, but it is often bafflingly uninteresting as a story.
More often than not, they found Cage's early work inoffensive, even charming.
It's an inoffensive, undercooked film without much to say, but there are flashes of potential.
