unoffensiveadj.

c1585 T. Cartwright in R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 96 Wee may be able to discerne the thinges that differ to our vnoffensiue walking in the sight of all men.

1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke sig. B4 [Nature] sent him to the world, All vnoffensiue, vnarm'd.

1731 J. Constable Refl. Accuracy Style Pref. p. vi As they [sc. the following remarks] were first made without the least offensive design, I desire they may be as unoffensive in their publick appearance.

1858 National Rev. Apr. 302 One of those politic evasions or reservations (to use unoffensive words).

1921 Bankers Mag. Oct. 665/2 The ill bred public servants go on inflicting their disagreeable personalities on unoffensive passersby.

2005 P. Zaleski & C. Zaleski Prayer x. 298 It would be hard to come up with a more unoffensive declaration.

1603 R. Rogers Seuen Treat. ii. xviii. 192 The Lord hath raised vp many..vnoffensiuely seeking to please him in all things.

1767 ‘Pacificus’ Let. 12 Oct. in Real Seeker (1769) xxiv. 180 The word..had since been so corrupted and abused..no law could wholly deface, nor could so unoffensively restore it, to be used in religious matters any more.

1842 Northern Baptist 5 31 It would be difficult to find a child who had lived more unoffensively.

1917 Art World Sept. 534/1 The surface technique is the most vigorous, appropriate and unoffensively individual.

2000 R. Campbell Plato's Garage 38 It wasn't that he was such a terrible actor—he was merely unoffensively bad.