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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonobscene
Adjective
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That’s just a decent dude, right there.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025 -
The opening sequence — involving a scared little boy whose fear only accelerates during a nightmarish car ride — is a decent bellwether for the first five episodes (which is all that were screened for critics, of the eight total).—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Comedian Josh Pray has started using it in front of his kids, working it into his videos, desperate to reclaim a formerly innocuous number.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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For people with mechanical allodynia, the brain no longer recognizes light touch as being innocuous and instead interprets it as being painful.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Oct. 2025
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The couple turns out to be blandly inoffensive, and after their brief encounter, the two women change their topic of conversation, moving on to dating and the narrator’s experience using dating apps.—
Rhian Sasseen,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2025
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The song structures and melodies are familiar; the production is largely inoffensive, and any pop radio station can play these lyrics.—
Eric Renner Brown,
Billboard,
14 Oct. 2025
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The home boasts clean lines, a sprawling backyard featuring a fire pit and a pool, as well as a home gym.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Some of these mountainsides have dislodged themselves deep in the bedrock, causing the face of a mountain to shear clean off — as has happened at least twice in the last two years.—
Ella Nilsen,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And then there’s Carrie, who is a heightened version of her lesser traits from SATC: prudish, private and lacking in humility.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
23 July 2025
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But Townsend Warner’s takedown of prudish Victorian morality is only getting started.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
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“Nonobscene.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonobscene. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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