Coffee cups Your standard coffee cup may seem innocuous.

The words seem innocuous enough and are used often, but they make us stop all other activities, Moran wrote.

Browsing through a borrowed book, lending a magazine to a friend, copying a news article for your files - all seem innocuous enough.

Yet on the face of it, the report seems innocuous, even dull.

It seemed innocuous enough, reporting on the various acts currently performing in Berlin.

The idea that would rock the world and immortalize its inventor seemed innocuous enough.

The lack of a front-line goal-kicker seemed innocuous in comparison to the other handicaps.

It seemed innocuous enough, little more than a warning gesture.

Derek's question seemed innocuous enough, but Dodge knew better.

Sometimes a non-response is the most sensible one. He smiled-thatseemed innocuous enough, he thought.

Like many sins, it seemed innocuous at first.

They seemed innocuous enough, rolling balls of gel with twin glowing red sensors at their cores.

On superficial inspection, the grainy images of fields, forests, and winding country roads seemed innocuous, almost bucolic.

The doors and windows opening out onto it seemed innocuous, hiding no shadows that did not belong.

This exchange seemed innocuous enough to Claire.

As AT&T raised its license fees, this arrangement, which had at first seemed innocuous, became increasingly burdensome.