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harmless

 adjective
     
harm‧less
1 unable or unlikely to hurt anyone or cause damage:
Her brother's a bit simple, but he's quite harmless.
2 not likely to upset or offend anyone:
It was just a bit of harmless fun.
—harmlessly adverb:
The spear whistled harmlessly over his head.
—harmlessness noun [uncountable]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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