benign

We bought a 100-year-old house about 2 1/2 years ago, and while it had good bones it suffered from benign neglect.

“I’m not convinced that the tariff impacts on prices will be benign,” Bostic says.

As directed by Mr. Villazón, the chorus, which plays a major role in the opera, is not benign: Its goal is to subsume Amina and suppress rebellion.

Those comments echoed remarks by ECB chief economist Philip Lane, who said Monday that the outlook for eurozone inflation is “reasonably benign.”

At its most benign, it represents a suburban, middle-class woman in an SUV peeling out of the McDonald’s drive-through after a late practice.