Preposition: as

• dove: You must be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• render: Sometimes we fear the approach of the last enemy, but Christ by His own death has rendered death harmless to His own people.

• hold: The hirer holds the company harmless of any liability for any personal or material damages arising from the conduct of his or her party.

Modifies a noun

• prank: Synopsis It was meant to be a harmless stag night prank.

• drudge: An unpaid career as a hopeless, and ever more harmless drudge... .

• pastime: I wish I had a harmless pastime based on throwing out rubbish.

• lunatic: Many of his peers considered him a harmless lunatic.

• banter: All because of a bit of harmless banter about nig-nogs.

• by-product: One species may metabolize a drug into toxic fragments whereas another may produce harmless by-products.

Modifying Another Word

• seemingly: Your first encounter is with a seemingly harmless little chap who shows you the way to the village.

• comparatively: What has been hitherto a comparatively harmless fad now threatens to become a minor heresy.

• relatively: Long term use Despite the myths, heroin is a relatively harmless drug, especially compared to alcohol or nicotine.

• mostly: Ok, those are all mostly harmless, people probably wouldn't panic.

• perfectly: For myself, I always thought the thing perfectly harmless.

• apparently: But after these apparently harmless beginnings, there would be comments on moral issues.

Used with adjective complement

• render: There's an example ( which has been rendered harmless ) here.

• hold: Neither participation nor control in the defense shall waive or reduce any obligations to indemnify or hold harmless.

• seem: My chair was a kiddies ' plastic one, which seemed harmless.

• appear: But they did not always appear harmless to people living at the time.

Preposition: from

• claim: You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim resulting from your publications or use of Illegal, Abusive or Unethical materials.