Unoffending
[,ʌnә'fendiŋ]
Definition
(adj.) not offending; 'an unoffending motorist should not have been stopped' .
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Harmless, blameless, inoffensive, innocent.
Checker: Mattie
Definition
adj. not offending blameless.—adj. Unoffen′sive inoffensive.
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Examples
- Mr. Tupman had saved the lives of innumerable unoffending birds by receiving a portion of the charge in his left arm. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He went downstairs, where, by the way, he vented the most horrid curses upon the unoffending footman, his subordinate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Make restitution to an innocent and unoffending child, for such he is, although the offspring of a guilty and most miserable love. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- What stung me, was the identification of the whole affair with my unoffending self. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And in a sudden access of fury, he throws the cushion at the unoffending Mrs. Smallweed, but it passes harmlessly on one side of her chair. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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