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unoffending

WordNet
  1. (adj) unoffending
    not causing anger or annoyance "inoffensive behavior"
  2. (adj) unoffending
    not offending "an unoffending motorist should not have been stopped"
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. unoffending
    Not offending; not giving offense; not sinning; free from sin or fault; harmless; innocent; blameless.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Unoffending
    un-o-fen′ding not offending, blameless
Usage in literature

The Boches apparently strafed back at an unoffending village on the west side of the hill. "Letters to Helen" by Keith Henderson

My darling unoffending Maude! "Elster's Folly" by Mrs. Henry Wood

And he never rode past Kirkdale Church without sinning again as he plunged the rowels into his mare's unoffending sides. "Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents" by Alexander Whyte

What they can do with one simple, unoffending, white-cloth cricket-hat passes all belief. ""Over There" with the Australians" by R. Hugh Knyvett

I; just keeping an unoffending eye on Queen Tamerhamer's little place. "The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth" by Timothy Templeton

Mr. Luttrell, with his cane, takes the heads off two unoffending crocuses that, most unwisely, have started up within his reach. "Molly Bawn" by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

Slavery commenced its dreadful work in kidnapping unoffending men in a foreign and distant land, and in piracy on the seas. "Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence" by Various

Wilson's hand is now stained with the blood of a worthy and unoffending man. "Diary in America, Series Two" by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

To the peaceable, unoffending inhabitants it brings neither danger nor difficulty. "The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2" by Edgerton Ryerson

This caught Mr Fortescue Jones, the unoffending assistant-paymaster, in the eye, and made all the purser's clerks yell with laughter. "Crown and Anchor" by John Conroy Hutcheson

Usage in poetry
The sire himself, with gesture wild,
His thoughtless offspring takes;
And seats his unoffending child
Amidst these angry Snakes!
"The Serpents" by William Hayley Author object (706)
"Though envious Age affects to deem thee Boy,
Lose not one day, one hour, of proffer'd bliss;
In youth grasp every unoffending joy,
And wing'd with rapture snatch the bridal kiss.
"Love's Triumph" by Nathaniel Bloomfield Author object (501)