benignant

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

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Horace Mann, contending that education could become "the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization," vastly strengthened the Massachusetts system of free public schools for the poor as well as the rich.

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Boss McCooey takes a benignant interest in schools, got his sister Margaret on the Board of Superintendents.

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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.*

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The benignant influence crept like gas through the Row.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck