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Conflict-Averse Formalism: The second most common type of art in public, these works are most notable for being inoffensively pretty at a time when people can take offense at anything.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

The creeping alien force constantly wrapping its tentacles around the dialogue in “Wrong Way” is the inoffensively postconservative, universalist rhetoric of contemporary business development.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023

“Just trying to slowly and hopefully inoffensively upgrade the aesthetic of the town,” Dix said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2023

Bonus: When both have proved over time their willingness to put the friendship’s interests above their own sometimes, it’s easier for one of them to say inoffensively, “Whoo, I need a night with adults.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2022

When it was dinnertime, Nathan set the plates as inoffensively as possible.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young