“Dr. Johnson smiled benignantly at this, and did not appear to disapprove of the notion.”

“And his majesty received them kindly and benignantly, and ordered that they should be treated like his other subjects and vassals.”

“He heard me benignantly, but said he regretted that it was not in his power to oblige me.”

“No doubt the technical assessment is sound and benignly offered, but the mere voicing of it has a slight ring of presumptuousness.”

“Some lenders may view one or two missed repayments relatively benignly and your credit rating may be largely unaffected.”

“Then the colonial governments had the idea, benignly intended, of protecting the peasant growers from the fluctuations of the marketplace.”