Examples of use of BENIGNLY
1. At the second banality I was nodding my head benignly.
2. "He didn‘t leak to anybody!" At other times, he portrayed Libby as benignly befuddled.
3. There we encountered the centurion Ferro, who, upon learning that we were university graduates, treated us benignly.
4. In Westminster the police would have stopped us until they passed but they benignly allowed us to carry on.
5. The immense power of multinational corporations, whether exercised benignly or otherwise, is part of a wider erosion of nation state sovereignty.