Benign and Parent

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Benign adjective - Not causing or being capable of causing injury or hurt.

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Parent and benign are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Parent" instead an adjective "Benign".

Nearby Words: benignant, benignly, benignity

Parent noun - A father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian.

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Benign and parent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Benign" instead an adjective "Parent".

Nearby Words: parentage, parenting, parenthood, parental, parentally

It gets sinister when you realize it depicts the boy being interrogated, as if he were an adult, by the Star Chamber: the secret police of the time, who have less than benign reasons for tracking down the absent parent.

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Particularly narcissistic parents, however, tend to favor the child that most looks/acts like him/herself (although that can happen in a more benign way, with a parent simply having more in common with a child who's also athletic, musical, artistic, etc.)

Source: Parental Favoritism

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