| 单词 | inoffensively |
| 例句 | When it was dinnertime, Nathan set the plates as inoffensively as possible. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Peck fills in the “Carousel” prescription fairly, correctly, inoffensively. ‘Carousel’ Dances Are a New Feather in the Enigmatic Justin Peck’s Cap 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z I’m concerned, though, about how to say this inoffensively to a grandchild-desperate person. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: An adult child doesn’t want kids, which doesn’t fit Mom’s grand plan 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s her first album since 2012 and by far her noisiest one, aimed not for radio or for inoffensively curated singer-songwriter playlists — but for catharsis. Fiona Apple Is Back and Unbound: Let’s Discuss 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Worse, it tasted sour but also managed to taste a lot like nothing, as though Harpoon hired a scientist to brew the world’s most inoffensively mediocre beer. Seasonal Suds: Rating 11 Fall Beers 2013-10-08T09:45:51Z Another: the overly careful and inoffensively middlebrow tone. Best and Worst Moments of the 75th Tony Awards 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z So in remembering his youth he fibs and cuts corners, whitewashing the past until the garishly bright Miami he grew up in starts to appear inoffensively, suspiciously sepia. Theater Review: Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas’s ‘Bird in the Hand’ at the New City 2012-09-13T22:12:03Z The clothes are inoffensively appealing enough to woo shoppers in from the street. Band of Outsiders and the Business of Casual 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z His style can best be described as inoffensively resolute: He doesn’t badger, but neither does he back off. Review: ‘My Scientology Movie,’ an Offbeat Inquiry 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Just uttering the word “partisan” is media Prozac: It soothes journalists’ angst about not being perceived as inoffensively neutral. Perspective | Wall-to-wall impeachment coverage is not changing any minds. Here’s how journalists can reach the undecided. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z A service called Music Stylist provides the inoffensively chic soundtracks. Boite: King Cole Bar and Salon at the St. Regis Hotel 2013-12-19T01:30:17Z “Just trying to slowly and hopefully inoffensively upgrade the aesthetic of the town,” Dix said. In King County elections, most people run unopposed. Here are their stories. 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z 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.” Advice | Carolyn Hax: Restaurants and friends’ little kids don’t mix 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Worse yet, as soon as the Europeans were able to travel anywhere else, what's come to be known all too inoffensively as "the age of discovery" began. Ukraine in perspective: Is war in Europe shocking and unusual? Hardly 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z He has light, coiffed hair; his face is inoffensively photogenic. Trumpism is an aesthetic, not an ideology — and it will survive Donald Trump 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z It is pretty straight, although Ross’s wife does run off with another woman in the first episode, a storyline which is presented relatively inoffensively. 90s Television was bad. What were we thinking? | Emma Brockes 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Where other parties’ symbols are inoffensively universal—here a red rose, there an oak tree—UKIP goes for gaudy purple and yellow and a big, bold pound sign. Britain's Nigel Farage and the Age of the Political Idiot 2013-07-03T18:06:55Z He was proverbially slow of movement, mentally and physically; was careless, inert, and dull; was sinewy, and gifted with great strength; was inoffensively quiet and peaceable, but when roused to resistance a dangerous antagonist. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z The petitions themselves were phrased inoffensively enough, stressing the fact that the Popish Plot had created a state of national emergency and requesting that Parliament be called to deal with this danger. Citt and Bumpkin (1680) 2011-12-21T03:00:27.683Z If, when you have done your best to write inoffensively, you still feel that it will probably lead to further controversy, keep a copy of it. Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing 2011-11-21T03:00:13.640Z Behold me before you worm-like therefore—a pretty ponderous worm, but still capable of the quiver of sensibility and quite inoffensively transportable—whether by motor-car or train, or the local, frugal fly. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Now may I be allowed some decided words, most kindly and inoffensively spoken, as to appointing negroes to federal offices in the south. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z But I hear your women live most blessedly; there is no such thing as jealousy among the husbands; if any man has horns, he bears them as loftily as a stag, and as inoffensively. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z But our aim is to abstract ourselves inoffensively, and maintain our rights that remain unrobbed, and to adhere closely to the fundamental constitutions, laws, and laudable practices of our native kingdom. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z As he fulfilled his high duties in the senate inoffensively without making enemies among his political friends, he escaped the fate which had awaited other presidents-designate of the Republic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z In consequence, she went her way as gaily and yet as inoffensively as she could, trying to avoid the sadness of entrancing anyone hopelessly and wondering what her career was to be. The "Genius" She was dressed suitably and inoffensively in brown holland. The Return of the Prodigal His niceness, Miss Keating imagined, would keep him linked arm in arm with his sister, maintaining, unconsciously, inoffensively, his distance and distinction. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur He—or she—will learn to dispose inoffensively of the waste and rubbish that drag after him like a trail wherever he goes. Upon The Tree-Tops Her slight deviation from a direct line of progress, though made inoffensively, struck him like a blow, yet did not interrupt, for more than an instant, his admiration. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 Well, then, here is a chance to exercise your gifts inoffensively, and yet in a way which may make two people happy for life. The O'Ruddy A Romance His spirits rose, his eyes brightened; he walked again with something of a martial swing, and whistled to himself softly and inoffensively that even a neighbour might not have heard. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 It seemed more politic to obey his instincts and remain unobtrusive in company and drift away inoffensively when the chance occurred. The Rough Road I always went as modestly and inoffensively as possible through the meadow, far from his two trees, seated myself on the edge of the slope at some distance from him, and remained quiet. Upon The Tree-Tops It was, no doubt, not the speech a well-trained English maiden would have made, but, though Hawtrey smiled rather curiously, it fell inoffensively from Sally's lips. Hawtrey's Deputy It is seen constantly and inoffensively sporting among the other great monsters of the deep, no way attempting to injure them, but pleased in their company. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. It was, no doubt, not the speech a well-trained English maiden would have made, but, though Hawtrey smiled rather curiously, it fell inoffensively from Sally’s lips. Masters of the Wheat-Lands It was as soft and warm as an unspoken promise, and it flipped back skirt hems and twisted hair tendrils most inoffensively. Stubble Love is a light which may lead us by offences inoffensively, and without stumbling. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Pilar even leaned out, as if daring the four or five sullen fellows to throw their stones into a girl's face, and their arms fell inoffensively. The Car of Destiny There would be something about it that would arouse in me a certain benevolent disdain, even though every volume was well printed on good paper and inoffensively bound. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women We went along very quietly and inoffensively, just as any other passengers would do, until we reached Big Shanty. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure I see blank well-ordered streets and men in black moving about inoffensively, sullenly. The Napoleon of Notting Hill That by no means can remedial operations be so conveniently, economically, inoffensively, and quickly effected as by the removal of all such refuse dissolved or suspended in water. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health About this copying: no art is more inoffensively imitated than gardening but unluckily none is more easily, or more absurdly, miscopied. The Amateur Garden We had been standing round him inoffensively, asking him questions, as the custom is, about his parentage, his trade, and so forth. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 It is still part of the family furnishings but it has merged quietly and inoffensively with its better born companions. If You're Going to Live in the Country But a change of masters cannot be managed so inoffensively. Humanly Speaking As this impious person had been of a very simple mind and behaved inoffensively, rather shrinking from publicity than courting it, he had at first attracted little attention. The Seeker Burt was given over to a restless and inoffensively egoistic pessimism. Success A Novel He was neatly and inoffensively dressed in blue serge, and although he did not look exactly like a gentleman, he would have passed for one in a crowd. Red Money They consider themselves also in this life as but upon a journey to another, and that they should get through it as quietly and as inoffensively as they can. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 Mr. Taylor had bought it as it stood, and his wife had made no attempt to alter the outside, which was, after all, inoffensively homely. Unleavened Bread From the doorway of his kitchen, inoffensively proffering a final cigarette to the radiant night, he had been the target of three shots with intent to kill. Somewhere in Red Gap The young man, arms hanging inoffensively by his side, stared at him with a curious fixity. Queed If they are brought in at all, they must be brought in, like moral sentiments, inoffensively by the way. The Art of Letters The subsidies which it granted were termed, inoffensively, "subventions," and its promoters protested that these "subventions" were "not in any opprobrious sense a subsidy or bounty." Manual of Ship Subsidies "And what have you to do with Blackie?" asked Grace, glancing across to the hillocks, where some cattle grazed inoffensively, in search of the formidable animal. Geordie's Tryst A Tale of Scottish Life Yet that there were Jews who held their heads high, let the following legend tell: Few men could shuffle along more inoffensively or cry "Old Clo'" with a meeker twitter than Sleepy Sol. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People After resting inoffensively two days on the Jordan, they marched forty miles south to Cedar Valley, where Camp Floyd was established. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West In two days he brought a great box of books, took possession of his room, and lived very inoffensively, except that he frequently disturbed the inhabitants of the next floor by unseasonable noises. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II One after another the squad was sent at a sharp spurt to grapple the inanimate canvas-covered bag hanging inoffensively there, like a body from a gallows, between the uprights. The Half-Back I said something about triangulation, once; the stately word pleased his ear; he inquired what it meant; I explained; after that he quietly and inoffensively ignored my name, and always called me Triangle. Life on the Mississippi, Part 8. She was one of those people who smiled inoffensively at the end of a game and then said they thought it would really be a little evener if they gave you both knights. Young People's Pride A Novel "We have no servants, in the American sense," I answered, as inoffensively as I could. Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance He was not presuming to place himself on the level with the Englishman; it seemed as if he were inoffensively lifting the Englishman up to himself. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People Before he became Lieutenant-Governor, he had served inoffensively in the State Senate for two terms. Lifted Masks; stories They were commonly in couples, very affectionate and inoffensively young. Seven English Cities He adorned an art, he endeavoured at eminence, and he inoffensively enjoyed the pleasure of his own superiority. Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 “I pray thee;” what language could be more courteous and gentle? “give glory to God, and make confession;” what words could be more inoffensively pertinent? Sermons on Evil-Speaking He admitted that the superintendent was carrying through an unpleasant duty as inoffensively as possible, but the attitude of the village policeman was irritating in the extreme. The Postmaster's Daughter He sniffs at all sorts of innocently happy people who are inoffensively pursuing their noisy course through life. Nonsenseorship So she stood and watched the sparrows inoffensively until Anne called her. The Head of the House of Coombe But there I had no other examples before me, and therefore I might inoffensively be guided by myself; and her majesty's continuance of the same honour has shown no disapprobation of my proceeding. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 So this affair began; inoffensively at the start, for my lord was good-humoured about it. The Amazing Marriage — Complete So this affair began; inoffensively at the start, for my lord was good- humoured about it. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3 If he behaved as inoffensively as at Richmond, acquaintance with him might be continued for the variety it brought into her life. The Odd Women He was mighty witty, and she also making sport with him very inoffensively, that a more pleasant rencontre I never heard. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Fuzzy was drunk—not riotously or helplessly or loquaciously, as you or I might get, but decently, appropriately, and inoffensively, as becomes a gentleman down on his luck. Strictly business: more stories of the four million I felt I didn't care for anything, except to die quietly and inoffensively. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Andrea's hand left his pocket inoffensively, and was carried up to the red mustache, which it played with for some time. The Count of Monte Cristo Perchance this tactfully-related story, so applicable to his own deficiencies, may sink into the imagination of the one for whom it was inoffensively unfolded. The Mirror of Kong Ho |
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