benignant
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had "a benignant smile" and was popular with his people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Boss McCooey takes a benignant interest in schools, got his sister Margaret on the Board of Superintendents.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The benignant influence crept like gas through the Row.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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