How to Use innocuous in a Sentence

innocuous

adjective

• He told a few innocuous jokes.
• Something as innocuous as Google Drive can be a vector for harassment.
  — Casey Fiesler, Wired, 16 Sep. 2020
• And masculine and feminine are innocuous compared with some of the sexist wine language that has passed as normal for many years.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 8 Sep. 2020
• In a vacuum, the items on my list might seem innocuous; working from home during a pandemic is no more hurtful than a drink of water.
  — Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020
• Graff said that seemingly innocuous suggestions may get swept up as a result of the policy change, but that the company wants to err on the side of caution.
  — Kaya Yurieff, CNN, 10 Sep. 2020
• Compared to most of the other films on this list, The Invitation boasts a seemingly innocuous premise.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• This applies to normally innocuous chemicals such as water, as well as highly toxic materials such as nerve agents.
  — Robert Chilcott, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2020
• Such innocuous forms of teenage rebellion as heavy metal fandom or Dungeons & Dragons could get a kid branded a cultist—if not a murderer.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
• Home networks are a major target for cybercriminals, who use innocuous smart gadgets as stepping stones to loot data from PCs and phones.
  — Frank Bajak, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
• So far, however, more than a dozen of the seed types identified by the agency have turned out to be innocuous species such as mustard, cabbage and morning glory as well as herbs like mint, sage, rosemary and lavender.
  — Alain Sherter, CBS News, 7 Sep. 2020
• But not all the fires were as innocuous as that of 1969.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 19 June 2019
• The blood in the van could have come from an injury as innocuous as a bloody nose, O’Connor said.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• And all this around an innocuous pair of Tabi-toed Mary-Janes.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
• What may seem innocuous at the time could lead to larger problems down the road.
  — Marc Zalmanoff, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• The lies of the Democrats are not so innocent or innocuous.
  — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2024
• Alarm bells should be ringing in your head at the innocuous tone.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• Many of the counts appear, on the surface, to be somewhat innocuous.
  — Christian Boone, ajc, 4 May 2021
• But the defense has tried to show it all as innocuous, or even wholesome.
  — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 17 Sep. 2021
• Most of the tips that come in to his department are found to be innocuous, Koren said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 18 Aug. 2019
• The small trees, which look so innocuous, have in fact become a lifeline.
  — Mary Holland, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2023
• The first post in the new Facebook group that was started on Wednesday was innocuous enough.
  — Sheera Frenkel, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• The episode opens with a scene that appears pretty innocuous.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Oct. 2021
• Looks like an innocuous piece of lifestyle brand spon-con, right?
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2021
• Rich asked a rep to school the group on this seemingly innocuous baking spice.
  — Mike Dang, Longreads, 1 Nov. 2017
• Early in the second, the Panthers took the lead on a seemingly innocuous play.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2022
• This sounds innocuous: no middle class family will pay more than 7% of pay for the cost of child care.
  — Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• The most recent episode of Inside Amy Schumer was a fairly innocuous one.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
• The reasons for the differences were innocuous, as well.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2022
• An innocuous header from Perisic found its way to Mandzukic, who this time didn't miss.
  — SI.com, 11 July 2018
• My affinity for the monitoring devices stems from watching TikTok videos of the most miniature and innocuous of pets terrorizing delivery people.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024