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innoxious

[ ih-nok-shuhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

innoxious

/ ɪˈnɒkʃəs /

From the Latin word innoxius, dating back to 1615–25. See in- ³, noxious

Measles, the Member for Sark tells me, can be conveyed in various apparently innoxious guises.

Neat cattle will touch nothing that is not wholesome in its nature; nothing that is not wholly innoxious.

That is the old-fashioned method of sorcery; my Apollo, in his hallowed lines, is pointing out an innoxious art.

I am well aware that, from any other than the human point of view, this proceeding is very innoxious.

Vanity, I believe, my dear brother, is not so innoxious a quality as we are desirous of supposing.

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