benevolent
Example Sentences
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And Mr. McKellen is mildly avuncular, radiating a stealthy, benevolent attitude.
Not like a drunk way but like a benevolent alien who couldn’t believe that this planet had donuts.
From Los Angeles Times
That’s possible even in “Pluribus,” where the hive mind seems benevolent, acting from a shared belief in doing the least harm to the planet, including to plant life.
From Salon
The myth imagines a benevolent planner; the reality looks much closer to a second-best market riddled with information frictions.
The Chinese and Irish formed benevolent societies to help new arrivals assimilate.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
