Usually means: Without causing upset or offense.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word inoffensively:

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  1. inoffensively: Merriam-Webster
  2. inoffensively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inoffensively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. inoffensively: Vocabulary.com
  5. inoffensively: Wordnik
  6. inoffensively: Wiktionary
  7. inoffensively: Dictionary.com
  8. inoffensively: Rhymezone
  9. inoffensively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. inoffensively: FreeDictionary.org
  11. inoffensively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. inoffensively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inoffensively: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inoffensively)

▸ adverb:  In an inoffensive manner.

Similar:
unoffendingly, unoffensively, indefensively, undefensively, offenselessly, innocuously, nonaggressively, inofficiously, offensively, nondefensively, more...

Opposite:
offensively, aggressively, provocatively

Types:
harmlessly, innocuously, benignly, more...

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Similar:
unoffendingly, unoffensively, indefensively, undefensively, offenselessly, innocuously, nonaggressively, inofficiously, offensively, nondefensively, more...

Opposite:
offensively, aggressively, provocatively

Types:
harmlessly, innocuously, benignly, more...



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