If your lump is not malignant, then it is benign.
Shouldn’t it be benignant?
Or else it should be benign and malign.
You can malign someone. But how do you benign them?
As does “abstemiously”.
The ones that have given me a chuckle lately are the adverbial forms of adjectives ending in ly, such as livelily and friendlily. I was hoping to apply something similar to correct what sounds really bad to me:
He needs to get this work done* timely*.
But apparently “timely” is also the adverb form. :mad:
I’ve decided we* might be*, though. If we try real hard. “We had ten minutes before we needed to leave. When he came into the room I was whelmed after noticing his heveled appearance.”
Actually, you can be whelmed. From Merriam-Websters -
Whelmed 1. to cover with water, submerge.
2 To overwhelm
So actually, overwhelmed is the unneeded word, since they mean exactly the same thing. Think of all the time you can save not saying or typing the over part!!
then downright or forthright.
you could go all Victorian and use honorable.
This is re integrity, btw.
Scrupulous?
And people always do things “half-assed.” Never “whole-assed” or “quarter-assed” or even just “assed.”
In drug use, you’re either “high” or “down.” Yet the opposite of “high” is “low” and the opposite of “down” is 'up"–only drug use is being “coked up.”
What about “smidgen”?
I have a friend who bought a sweater that was adorned with sequins.
One day she picked it up from the dry cleaner and remarked, “God! I think some of the sequences came off!”
I’ve always wondered why swoops must be fell. And why is it that no one uses fell in that way for any other use? You don’t talk about the fell plans of the corrupt prosecutor, forex. Just about fell swoops.
I wanna see someone talk about a benign swoop.
That’s what you get from a shorebird who doesn’t want your sandwich.
Yabbut, if it’s not swooping down to grab your sammich, it’s coming down to make a deposit. Not very benign, if you ask me. 
I’m always irritated by perturbed and disturbed I remember when I was in middle school, the former was a vocabulary word and I was like "why wouldn’t you just say disturbed…
Are there types of nog other than egg nog?
Are there types of marm other than a schoolmarm?
That’s the result of the Visigoths winning a round in the culture wars.
Well, ‘hopefully’ still perplexes me because while I know it’s wrong to say “hopefully I can blah blah blah,” there seems to be NO replacement word. I can’t always say “it is to be hoped that” or even “I hope I can” - sometimes it just doesn’t work with the sentence, really it doesn’t. So it’s the only word that I sometimes consciously use wrong, and it really grinds my gears.
Originally, however, it simply referred to members of families who lived in an area that also bore their surname. This page gives the example “Guthrie of that ilk”, which meant Guthrie of the city/shire/estate called Guthrie. But you’re correct – you hardly ever hear someone saying “I love people of that ilk!” Instead, the word is used by liberals to refer to conservatives, or by teetotalers making snide comments about those frat boys who go through a couple of kegs each weekend.
This gave me a surprise laugh so violent, I snorted on intake loud enough for someone down the hall to hear me. <wipes tear>
HA!
There’s the slang term for money: simoleons
You always hear it in terms of large sums, such as “one hundred thousands simoleons!” But I frequently use it for small amounts. “Can I borrow five simoleons?” “If you put a simoleon in the machine, it will make change.”
Thanks! I had never heard that word before.
Interestingly, there’s nothing wrong with using hopefully that way. Sadly, many people just don’t understand the idea of a disjunct . Hopefully, you won’t be too vindicitve when pointing this out to them.