innocuous

In a sentence

Six example sentences with innocuous, each labelled with its topic.

• The chili looked fierce but proved innocuous, and even the children finished their bowls without reaching for water.

  Cooking

• The file seemed innocuous, a plain spreadsheet, until the security team noticed it quietly opened a connection overseas.

  Technology

• What sounds innocuous to the speaker can land as an insult, which is why the study recorded both sides separately.

  Psychology

• The clause looked innocuous, a single line about arbitration, until the customers tried to sue.

  Law

• The innocuous looking vine turned out to strangle native trees, and the council now pays crews to remove it.

  Environment

• An innocuous pass to the corner became the turning point when the defender read it and ran the length of the court.

  Basketball

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains innocuous. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More GMAT words

• oblivious
• squander
• abound
• detach
• fluency
• crave
• compliant
• heterogeneous
• sporadic
• ingenuity
• enigma
• respite