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Where official documents are available and contain details, offences can be shocking in their innocuity.

From BBC • May 12, 2021

The World Health Organization issued a statement that read, “Mass immunization should not be generally adopted until such times as scientific data are available on the innocuity and efficacy of the vaccine.”

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

This gives a compound or twopenny sensation of the unspeakable, combined with absolute innocuity, like a vegetarian chop or a temperance champagne.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel