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    And beneath his benign reply, I sense a warning.  (source)
    benign = mild -- seeming harmless
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    The community, relieved from its discomfort very slightly by her benign statement, seemed to breathe more easily.  (source)
    benign = kind, mild, or harmless
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    she was only another lady in the neighborhood, but a relatively benign presence.  (source)
    benign = harmless (kind or mild)
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    There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face,  (source)
    benign = kindly
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    ... and it seemed to me that they looked on me benignly...  (source)
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    For as she gazed toward the ceiling now through pupils gradually shrinking back to their normal focus, she was aware that Emmi had stood up and was regarding her with an expression resembling benignness, or at least a certain tolerant curiosity, as if there had been expelled from her mind her fury at Sophie for being both a Polack and a thief; the nursing seizure appeared to have been cathartic, allowing her enough in the way of an exercise of authority to satisfy the most frustrated SS dwarfing, after which she now assumed once again the plump round outlines of a little girl.†  (source)
    benignness = the quality of being kindly or harmless
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    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.  (source)
    benign = harmless (not cancer)
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    The speaker's hands were folded benignly on his chest.  (source)
    benignly = mildly or harmlessly
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    They don't know whether his weirdness is benign or not.  (source)
    benign = harmless
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    La Fayette also had the authority to put Bonaparte in command over Frederic, if he desired. ... La Fayette smiled benignly. "General Bonaparte is under your command, Frederic. That will not change. Ever."  (source)
    benignly = mildly
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    The belly of the plane groaned open and we were delivered abruptly into the benign spring air of Fort Benning, Georgia.  (source)
    benign = mild and harmless
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    Now Zeus who drives the stormcloud said benignly: "Here is how I should do it, little brother..."  (source)
    benignly = kindly or mildly
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    It has apparently mutated to a benign form.  (source)
    benign = harmless
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