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inoffensive-looking

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  • What you get for your efforts is “a fairly inoffensive-looking stand for your gadgets from less than $US5 of materials”.

    Build A No-Slip Phone Dock And Charger For $5 | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • “It would be better, I imagine, if you let harems alone and devoted your attention to lonely and inoffensive-looking seals,” was what she said.

    Chapter 30 2010

  • What you get for your efforts is “a fairly inoffensive-looking stand for your gadgets from less than $US5 of materials”.

    Build A No-Slip Phone Dock And Charger For $5 | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • I am actually fairly short and inoffensive-looking in person.

    If the Florida GOP Can Do It, So Can the NRSC - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Having been called from outside the court, an inoffensive-looking Pakistani of middle age, neatly dressed with spectacles and a greying beard, moved out into the space in front of the witness box.

    Rumpole and the Reign of Terror Mortimer, John 2006

  • The monitor showed the bomb still in place, inconspicuous and inoffensive-looking among all the banks of equipment, unless you knew what it was.

    Betrayal Lois Tilton 2000

  • He was a fresh-faced, inoffensive-looking man with white hair, bright eyes and an engagingly fatherly manner.

    The White Cottage Mystery Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966. n 50021032-1 1975

  • She'd replaced the comb with an inoffensive-looking pair of light pliers and was doing up her hair with the metal shavings.

    The Night of the Long Knives Fritz Leiber 1951

  • The latter were armed, whereas the peaceful and inoffensive-looking Thugs carried no weapon, but had with them only the innocent roomal, which they knew how to wield when the moment should arrive with such swift and fatal dexterity.

    Tales of the Caliph H. N. Crellin

  • He had squares of white cardboard in his hand, and here and there, as the officers trooped down the gangway, he picked out a young and inoffensive-looking subaltern and subpoenaed him.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 Various

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