Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not hurtful; wanting the power of doing harm or injury.

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Examples

  • What a nest of vipers may be crushed at once, or, at least, rendered unhurtful, by depriving the three monsters he names of the aid of such an agent?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.

    Measure for Measure 2004

  • Whatever the cause, it was clear that Oscar was what Shakespeare called himself, “an unhurtful opposite.”

    Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

  • O! you hope the duke will return no more, or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.

    Act III. Scene II. Measure for Measure 1914

  • Whatever the cause, it was clear that Oscar was what Shakespeare called himself, "an unhurtful opposite."

    Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910

  • But this unhurtful and harmless kind of worship pleaseth them.

    The Second Book. Of the Religions in Utopia 1909

  • He comes nearer the fact in “Measure for Measure,” where the Duke, his other self, is shown to be “an unhurtful opposite” too gentle-kind to remember an injury or punish the offender, and he rings the bell at truth's centre when, in

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • His humor is fast-paced and sophisticated, yet gentle and unhurtful: all in all, a charming and affable comedian.

    Sierra Sun - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010

  • O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.

    Measure for Measure 1604

  • _ O, you hope the Duke will return no more; or 155 you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite.

    Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590

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  • O! you hope the duke will return no more, or you imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But, indeed, I can do you little harm: you'll forswear this again.

    --William Shakespeare, 1603, Measure for Measure

    October 4, 2008