sympathetic
Example Sentences
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Relatively unknown outside his own country at the time, Lee had a reputation as a firebrand who was sympathetic to socialist economic causes.
From BBC
“Are the boots uncomfortable in the heat, Miss Penelope?” one of them was asking me, her forehead crinkled up like a dumpling as she tried to appear sympathetic.
From Literature
Commerce collapsed, smuggling flourished, and local juries sympathetic to their neighbors’ plight punished the customs officials and soldiers sent to enforce federal policy.
The film may initially present Man-su as a sympathetic family man trying to make ends meet, but Lee quickly subverts those sentiments once Man-su’s methodical process betrays no sense of remorse.
From Los Angeles Times
To make matters worse, some of her friends back home aren’t too sympathetic.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
