Sentence examples for hardly benign from inspiring English sources
And the the environment is hardly benign.
Incompetence married to zeal is hardly benign — dumb people have done their share of damage in the world — but it can nonetheless be funny.
Indeed, when the researchers analysed the contents of each bird's large intestine, they could not detect some 85% of the micro-organisms they had found on its facial skin.But what remains is hardly benign.
And according to a November 2010 report commissioned by the Pew Environment Group's U.S. Arctic program, charred residues left over from in-situ burning aren't as toxic as the original oil, but they're hardly benign.
But this new frill is hardly as benign as a bag of pretzels.
Although Labor's policy toward refugees was hardly more benign, Mr Howard and the Liberals won easily.
Elsewhere in the region, the attitude toward it is hardly so benign.
It was hardly as benign as the suggestions that people should floss daily or drink lots of water.
If the film's equation of violence with justice also inspires imitation, its impact will hardly be benign.
There's still plenty of global warming and centuries of coastal retreats in the pipeline, so this is hardly a "benign" situation, as some have cast it.
