benignant

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Boss McCooey takes a benignant interest in schools, got his sister Margaret on the Board of Superintendents.

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For in one of the mission chambers a venerable, white-haired invalid, with wrinkled, bespectacled eyes and a broad, benignant face, lay on what seemed likely to be his death bed.

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Radio's most untrammeled critic last week put out a little book that was, like himself, benignant but free from bunk.*

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Onetime president of Universal Turbine Co., a Red Cross and Intelligence Division worker during the War, he is tall, grey-mustached and goateed, a benignant neighbor to Huntington villagers.

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No notice was taken of Amy’s flight, except by her mates, but the sharp-eyed demoiselles discovered that Mr. Davis was quite benignant in the afternoon, also unusually nervous.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott