benevolent
Example Sentences
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By 1908, Wilhelm’s attitude toward the U.S. was more benevolent, and he offered President Theodore Roosevelt an elite corps of Prussian soldiers to be posted in California, supposedly to fend off a Japanese invasion.
From Salon
Sun Ra was a mythologist, in a very benevolent, deliberate, emancipative sense.
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
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