sympathetic
Example Sentences
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By day the Eagle was a bustling pharmacy, with Jews coming in not just for medications but to read the foreign and underground newspapers stocked by the sympathetic owner.
From Literature
But it’s to Raimi and the actors’ credit that they manage to make such an odious character as Bradley actually sympathetic — and so clear a heroine as Linda complex and thorny.
From Los Angeles Times
In recent years, changes in culture, technology and the music industry have opened up conversations casting Rob and Fab in a more sympathetic light.
From Los Angeles Times
Many Mexicans, once sympathetic to Cuba, feel Mexico’s highly indebted state oil company can’t continue to indefinitely support the Cuban government.
There, he earned a reputation as a piercingly thorough interviewer of victims and witnesses—but also an uncommonly gentle and sympathetic one.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
