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unthreatening

a. Not threatening

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unthreatening

adj. not unfriendly or threatening; "her well-meaning words were received in silence"; "the exasperation of a...well-meaning cow worried by dogs" [syn: well-meaning]

Usage examples of "unthreatening".

Unlike the dedicated Sigint ships, which were virtually unarmed and unthreatening in appearance, the heavily armed destroyers were designed to be threatening and their presence was provocative.

Nancia had never envisioned herself discussing something so personal with anybody, let alone a high ranking army officer, but something about General Questar-Benn's unassuming manner made intimate 104 Asms McCaffrey & Margaret Ball talk unthreatening and easy.

Nancia had never envisioned herself discussing something so personal with anybody, let alone a high-ranking army officer, but something about General Questar-Benn's unassuming manner made intimate talk unthreatening and easy.

So the lovely comets that on occasion rouse us humans to wonder and to awe, that crater the surfaces of inner planets and outer moons, and that now and then endanger life on Earth would be unknown and unthreatening had Uranus and Neptune not grown to be giant worlds four and a half billion years ago.

Slowly, among the hordes of ordinary and unthreatening people, he began to pick out others.