benignant

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He had "a benignant smile" and was popular with his people.

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.

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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.*

From Time Magazine Archive

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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General Peckem roused himself after a moment with an unctuous and benignant smile.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller