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"word": "zərərsiz"
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"word": "inofensiu"
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"word": "無害"
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"word": "neškodný"
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "ongevaarlijk"
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "inoffensif"
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"word": "ártalmatlan"
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"word": "ضررسز"
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"word": "زیانسز"
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"word": "nevătămător"
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"word": "inofensiv"
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"word": "neškodný"
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"_dis1": "78 16 6",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "inocuo"
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"_dis1": "78 16 6",
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"word": "ofarlig"
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"word": "нешкідли́вий"
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"ref": "1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest",
"text": "The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?",
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"word": "zərərsiz"
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "няшко́дны"
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "бясшко́дны"
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "безвре́ден"
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "безоби́ден"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "無害"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "onschadelijk"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "harmiton"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "inoffensif"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "unschädlich"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "ungefährlich"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "ártalmatlan"
},
{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "neamhdhíobhálach"
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"word": "neamhurchóideach"
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"word": "зарарсыз"
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"word": "무해의"
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"code": "la",
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"word": "oney"
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"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "māhaki"
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"roman": "zararsız",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "ضررسز"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "ziyansız",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "زیانسز"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nieszkodliwy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "inofensivo"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "nevătămător"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "inofensiv"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezvrédnyj",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "безвре́дный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bezobídnyj",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "безоби́дный"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "neškodný"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "inocuo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "inofensivo"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "ofarlig"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "zararsız"
},
{
"code": "tk",
"lang": "Turkmen",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "zyýansyz"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "neškidlývyj",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "нешкідли́вий"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "incapable of causing harm or danger",
"word": "diniwed"
}
],
"word": "harmless"
}
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