beneficent
Example Sentences
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Like good Republicans, Prosperans imagine that everything about their system of static privilege is “entirely beneficent.”
From Washington Post
Life, after all, is rarely irradiated by beneficent light coming in at just the right angle.
From Washington Post
When Butler’s Prospero refers to Miranda as “a third of mine own life” while bestowing her on Ferdinand, he seems more resentful than beneficent.
From Los Angeles Times
The book it describes, by Clancy Martin, is a doozy: messy, confessional but ultimately beneficent.
From New York Times
Occasionally, if I’m feeling particularly beneficent to future pirate me, I’ll add some peeled slices of whole horseradish root to a cast-off bottle of vodka and bury it in the back of the pantry.
From Los Angeles Times
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