It's very cautious, neutral, inoffensive, neither one thing nor the other — the Audacity of Taupe.
Jeb Bush: I'll wear something very sober and inoffensive to the eye.
Still, his nice-guy demeanor can also display a sharp edge -- as when he complimented Assemblyman Joe Roberts, a Democratic back-room power broker from Camden, as "very slick in an inoffensive kind of way".
It feels very dense but it's perfectly inoffensive.
Dutton describes Stewart as the "flip side" of Jeff Gordon, whose "inoffensive charm masks a very ruthless, even risky driving style".
"It's utterly eccentric and very difficult to explain but totally inoffensive," Mr. Kenyon said, pointing out that audience members wave flags of many countries.
While both portmanteau and -ish serve to get a point across economically and are, in that sense, both very modern and more or less inoffensive, portmanteau, at least, calls on an element of cleverness: "staycation," "bromance".
They wrote that the episode was "thoroughly racist" sic but "completely inoffensive because it's simply very funny".
However, the use of the word is highly debated among Latin Americans, and some argue that the term is inoffensive because it's used very frequently in conversation and rarely when actually speaking about gays.
One thing they are very good at is extending the shelf life of glossy and inoffensive feel-good movies already popular with audiences and well received by critics.
