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Benignly

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a benign manner.

    "When he recovered sufficiently to articulate, Bunson had stalked away, and Quin was regarding him benignly, like an adjutant bird who had just concluded an interesting experiment on a worm."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a benign manner wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English benignely; equivalent to benign + -ly.

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