Many people fail to appreciate hypocrisy and are unable to acknowledge its benign effects on human relations.

Ordinarily he hated company, but his son's wife had a benign effect on him.

If the Administration were right, eviscerating social programs would have had a benign effect.

He has a benign effect on this collection of virtuosos.

Malcolm, as "probably the only nice person in history to own the wretched thing," exerts a benign effect on the world.

Could it really be some kind of unusually benign environmental-change effect, as the experts seemed to be saying?

The historical dumping of waste in this country has had nowhere near the benign, let alone beneficial, effects he suggests.

But a constant drip-drip of political humiliation had less benign effects.

Are we to expect that moving people off welfare now will have a benign effect on their lives?

Supporters of the rules point out that methadone is itself an addictive drug, however benign its effects.