unbaleful

comparative more unbaleful · superlative most unbaleful

1. Not baleful, harmless, innocent.

   The Unbaleful Bourbon

   1948, Investors Chronicle and Money Market Review, volume 174, page 371

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   In the old days 'pourings on to boats' in New York were an ideal curtain to a visit: particularly in prohibition days, when you knew that in a very litde while you would be on a bar stool, ordering a legitimate and unbaleful glass of morning beer.

   2011, Alec Waugh, The Fatal Gift

   Handle creaks, cattlecake flies like a shuttlecock, rattles the pailful: Sniff while the harm of death dies by the charm of breath, all bales unbaleful.

   2014, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Artemis Cooper, Words of Mercury: Tales from a Lifetime of Travel