malignant
adjective
disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
nonmalignant
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a word derived from
malignant.
Example Sentences
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If there is some nonmalignant part of Graham Platner’s character, we have yet to hear about it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Ms. Vong Reiff, who owns her own marketing firm, also decided to enroll her sons in the trial to protect her husband, who underwent surgery and radiation for nonmalignant meningioma, she said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2021
I.B.M. ignored all that, Smith said, and instead created a database of labelled images of malignant and nonmalignant lesions, then gave that database to deep-learning researchers, who used it to train melanoma-recognition algorithms.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
The Newsweek article reported, however, that Pross came the center to participate in a vocational training program, and she had undergone surgery on her eye as the result of a nonmalignant tumor.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2014
It cautioned that uncertain methods of diagnosis at that time allowed charlatans and uneducated practitioners to report cures of cancer in instances where nonmalignant growths were “removed by their caustic pastes and plasters.”
From History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964 by Sami Khalaf Hamarneh
