benevolent
Example Sentences
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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.
The family assumes these blessings are the work of a benevolent forest spirit.
From Salon
He said the general "could even be somewhat tender and benevolent".
From Barron's
Despite all the costs entailed in the transition, industrial technology and the market system accomplished what no benevolent king’s redistribution, no loving bishop’s charity, no mercantilist’s protectionism and no powerful guild ever did.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
