Example Sentences

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Even the images dealing with domination are composed with a lightness of touch and salting of humour that is decidedly unmenacing.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2017

Some of the caravan inhabitants opened their doors and began to follow us, in what was a not unmenacing manner.

From BBC • May 17, 2013

What I had remembered as fast, grimy realism now felt languid, gentle and unmenacing: the baddies were like cartoon characters and the violence really wasn't very violent.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2012

At the same time, he must appear reasonable and unmenacing to the watching outside world.

From Time Magazine Archive

That must be the top of the Castle Rock, distant and unmenacing.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding