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inoffensively, adv.|ɪnəˈfɛnsɪvlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an inoffensive manner; so as not to give offence; without offence; harmlessly.
1598Bp. Hall Sat. Postsc. H iv, Tho were shee [Poetry] a more vnworthie Mistresse, I thinke she might be inoffensiuely serued with the broken Messes of our twelue-a-clocke houres. 1646P. Bulkeley Gospel Covt. i. 111 To walk more exactly and inoffensively, considering we have our way so plain before us. 1788W. Eden in G. Rose's Diaries (1860) I. 76 Ambassadors..who have gone through the same career inoffensively and inefficiently. 1896Mrs. Caffyn Quaker Grandmother 130 She took up her violin which reposed inoffensively in a snug corner. |