A more benign (and legal) version of the pyramid con, ubiquitous on the Internet, is the chain letter.

His friend's blue eyes had gone cold and distant: he looked like a distinctly less benign version of his son.

He has penned a benign high-culture version of "A Star Is Born" with a happy ending.

In benign versions of this geographical exceptionalism, these are places where wisdom accumulates.

(It's a slightly more benign version of his "White Heat.")

And, like a rather more benign version of the Doorway Cave, he brought them fully back to life.

The adenoma, lacking the "carcinoma" attached to the end of it, suggests that it is a benign version of the malignant adenocarcinoma.

The form I received was a benign version of the typical waiver used in the recreation industry.

Yet here, among the possessions of this strangely benign version of the Intendant, was Kaleen's bracelet.

The hormones are more benign versions of the testosterone derivatives that East German officials fed him.