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Definition

kindly, mild, or harmless

benign = mild or favorable (kind)

benign = kind or harmless

80% of tumors are benign.
His face was fatherly and benign, and his eyes twinkled with friendship.
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl

benign = kindly

One morning in the beginning of December, Dr. O'Holleran called me at home with strange news: not only was the tissue benign; it was entirely normal.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

benign = harmless (not cancer)

And beneath his benign reply, I sense a warning.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

benign = mild — seeming harmless

They don't know whether his weirdness is benign or not.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

benign = harmless

He turned slowly in his swivel chair and looked benignly at the witness.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

benignly = kindly

It has apparently mutated to a benign form.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

benign = harmless

benign = kindly, mild, or harmless

... and it seemed to me that they looked on me benignly...
Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve

benignly = kindly

The belly of the plane groaned open and we were delivered abruptly into the benign spring air of Fort Benning, Georgia.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible

benign = mild and harmless

I could see ... the overgrown path I had taken, benign enough in the daylight.
Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach

benign = mild or harmless

His air is that of a benign and learned mathematician about to be quizzed by a schoolboy on matters of short division.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind

benign = kindly or harmless

Now Zeus who drives the stormcloud said benignly: "Here is how I should do it, little brother..."
Homer -- The Odyssey

benignly = kindly or mildly

He'd been in a so-called "closed-air bassinette," which is a more benign description of an incubator.
Randy Pausch -- The Last Lecture

benign = kindly, mild, or harmless

The community, relieved from its discomfort very slightly by her benign statement, seemed to breathe more easily.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

benign = kind, mild, or harmless

The New England states use a terse form of instruction... New York State shouts at you the whole time. Do this. Do that. ... Every few feet an imperious command. In Ohio the signs are more benign. They offer friendly advice, and are more like suggestions.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley

benign = kindly or mild

There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face,
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

benign = kindly

The speaker's hands were folded benignly on his chest.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey

benignly = mildly or harmlessly

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