tS=Consider Governor Whitman , who despite refusing to take a no-new-taxes pledge, won a squeaker victory on an <b>anodyne</b>-sounding promise to do something about high property taxes.<br><br>He considered even the word prisoner an <b>anodyne</b> term for people who have killed, maimed, and slaughtered in the name of a cause.&tQ=<b>Anodyne</b> means:&tC=Phony|Soothing|Self-serving|Politically motivated|Too good to be true&cC=2&fB=<b>Anodyne</b> means soothing. <b>Anodyne</b> is pronounced an-uh-DYNE.
