Antonym: malign. Similar words: enigma, denigrate, enigmatic, bent, bend, bench, beneath, benefit. Meaning: [bɪ'naɪn] adj. 1. not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) 2. pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence 3. kindness of disposition or manner.
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61. The Rush die scandal has exposed the weaknesses of any benign multiculturalism premised on the assumption of easy harmony and pluralism.
62. Police spoke of a benign new law enforcement tactic no more intrusive than a video camera at a convenience store.
63. Compared to his adulthood of sadism, cruelty and murder, his childhood of abuse and rejection looks benign.
64. One advantage that Roundup has over other herbicides is that it is relatively benign to the environment.
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65. Competence addressed without concern for its potentially destructive possibilities is hardly preferable to a benign ineptitude.
66. Only four of the 42 patients with benign strictures had constipation and none had evidence of intestinal obstruction.
67. If kept in a small cul-de-sac by itself, it will be utterly benign.
68. Under his benign regime, Thatcherism as a model of social transformation will continue to work its way through the system.
69. We report photographic follow-up of patients with 3 or more clinically atypical naevi and 20 or more benign naevi.
70. Other less toxic or benign metals such as calcium, magnesium, and strontium are also efficiently dissolved.
71. Instead, a somewhat more benign Major nightmare has only just begun.
72. New York City health authorities also took a benign view of leprosy.
73. I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
74. His chronic disease, which erupted periodically like a benign volcano, was his insurance policy.
75. Tumours of this size are not identified clinically except incidentally in surgical specimens removed because of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
76. In relatively benign environments, predation is the dominant biological interaction that structures communities. 2.
77. This unequal but in general legitimated social hierarchy had depended on a healthy capitalist economy and benign, prosperous welfare State.
78. The benign ruler who took over, Major-General Bantu Holomisa, spoke at the graveside.
79. Yet at the same time he offers the black underclass, and its more urgent needs, little more than benign neglect.
80. In one case of benign stricture, the endoscopy biopsy specimen was reported as being suspicious for malignancy.
81. The peritoneovenous shunt is an established method of palliation for intractable benign and malignant ascites.
82. The climate becomes more benign as we move nearer to the Black Sea.
83. She is beautiful and benign and the embodiment of all the finest qualities of a loyal and loving wife.
84. The real Nixon was not a benign statesman but a ruthless, corrupt president who abused power on a spectacular scale.
85. Shocked by the mere thought, I suddenly feel strangely benign toward the animals that I love so dearly to eat.
86. There is an hierarchical structure, but managerial authority is respected as a benign guardian of company interests.
87. In several large series from other countries, however, corrosive ingestion was responsible for only 1-4% of benign oesophageal strictures.
88. It may be that the best corrective to them arises from frequent interaction with a more benign reality.
89. Perhaps the expansion can continue and possibly it will one day taper off in benign fashion.
90. No need for anyone to point out the unlikelihood of such a slew of benign effects occurring the same week.
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