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benign

Pathol (of a tumour, etc.) not threatening to life or health; not malignant

benign

[bə′nīn]
(medicine)
Of no danger to life or health.
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I do not think the innocent kitten can be guilty, and surely it is unkind to accuse a luncheon of being a murder.
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It seemed to become personally important to myself that the truth should be discovered and that no innocent people should be suspected, for suspicion, once run wild, might run wilder.
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Paper him, as ye call it, set the hunt on him; and let honest, innocent folk show their faces in safety." But at this both Alan and James cried out in horror; bidding me hold my tongue, for that was not to be thought of; and asking me what the Camerons would think?
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But whether innocent or guilty, your trial begins to-morrow, and the day after you will be condemned.
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Did not this mute tryst betray the secret of her innocent soul?
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In every gallery in Europe there are hideous pictures of blood, carnage, oozing brains, putrefaction--pictures portraying intolerable suffering--pictures alive with every conceivable horror, wrought out in dreadful detail--and similar pictures are being put on the canvas every day and publicly exhibited--without a growl from anybody--for they are innocent, they are inoffensive, being works of art.
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Murderous minstrel, instrument of evil, most innocent instrument!
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But I trust that, in the worst case, we may obtain a pardon for the sake of the innocent who are involved."
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Suspicious circumstances swarmed upon my slow perception: how innocent I had been!
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If there is not evidence enough, on the one hand, to justify them in finding a prisoner guilty, and not evidence enough, on the other hand, to thoroughly convince them that a prisoner is innocent, they extricate themselves from the difficulty by finding a verdict of Not Proven."
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These calumnies might have probably produced ill consequences, at the least might have occasioned some trouble, to a person of a more doubtful and suspicious character than Mr Allworthy was blessed with; but in his case they had no such effect; and, being heartily despised by him, they served only to afford an innocent amusement to the good gossips of the neighbourhood.
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"In this matter of the Diamond," he said, "the characters of innocent people have suffered under suspicion already--as you know.
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