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Swedish
Etymology
o- + skadlig, from Old Swedish oskadheliker.
Adjective
oskadlig (comparative oskadligare, superlative oskadligast)
- harmless, innocuous
De sammansvurne hade för övrigt endast att välja mellan kejsarmordet och inbördeskriget, och de kunde ju förebära den cesariska läran om »raison d’État», då de valde det förra som både säkrare och oskadligare.- The conspirators had by the way only to chose between killing the emperor and civil war, and they could present the Cesarian theory of »raison d’État», when they preferred the former as being both safer and more harmless.
Declension
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
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