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benevolent
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  • He was a benevolent, but misguided dictator.
    benevolent = kind
  • There is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, ... I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.  (source)
  • That day, he had believed that what lay around them was the work of infinitely broad, benevolent hands, a gift of compassion.  (source)
    benevolent = kind, generous, or charitable
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  • the Headmaster's Discretionary Benevolent Fund  (source)
    Benevolent = charitable
  • Miss Maudie's benevolence extended to Jem and Dill,  (source)
    benevolence = kindness or generosity
  • Szpirglas smiled benevolently.  (source)
    benevolently = with kindness
  • Even the most irresponsible pretty woman of her acquaintance had her inherited obligations, her conventional benevolences, her share in the working of the great civic machine; and all hung together in the solidarity of these traditional functions.†  (source)
  • He's looking at me, not unbenevolently, but with curiosity, as if I am a puzzle to be solved.†  (source)
    unbenevolently = without kindness or generosity
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbenevolently means not and reverses the meaning of benevolently. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • I left for school under the benevolent gaze not only of Mother but also of bright-eyed otters and...  (source)
    benevolent = kind
  • The benevolence of the Germans even persuaded them to allow a delegate from our group to move freely about the city every day and make these purchases on our behalf.  (source)
    benevolence = kindness
  • "Little sister, been a long time since I play with dolls," he said, smiling benevolently.  (source)
    benevolently = with kindness
  • And Lucy had so much of this benevolence in her nature that I am inclined to think her small egoisms were impregnated with it, just as there are people not altogether unknown to you whose small benevolences have a predominant and somewhat rank odor of egoism.†  (source)
  • ...benevolent and powerless to help.  (source)
    benevolent = kind
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