benevolent 的定义
- characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings: a benevolent attitude; her benevolent smile.
- desiring to help others; charitable: gifts from several benevolent alumni.
- intended for benefits rather than profit: a benevolent institution.
benevolent 近义词
charitable, kind
更多benevolent例句
- Later in life Darwin seems to have relinquished any notion that the theory of natural selection might redeem death and suffering, and thus vindicate a benevolent God.
- This mindset began to erode over the course of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s—first, when massive waves of layoffs and benefit cuts destabilized the myth of the benevolent parent company.
- Whether this coalition of strangers—one whose intentions were undoubtedly benevolent—knew better than anyone in Spears’ inner circle what was best for her remained an open question.
- In his telling, that generation came to politics skeptical but hopeful, only to find themselves confronted with a disastrous war, vicious polarization at home and the end of any hope for benevolent American hegemony.
- Rodrigo has been at the center of that mostly benevolent storm this year.
- They are often characterized as benevolent and admirable; when we do the same, we are angry and unreasonable.
- Once in power, they often hired gifted artists to portray them in flattering and benevolent poses.
- Help with onerous conditions is not help so much as benevolent coercion.
- If you have a great person in charge then a benevolent dictator is wonderful.
- Or, they may be less benevolent, as Dray believes Gorelik was.
- He was learned, benevolent and pious, and author of several religious works.
- His ambition is a purely selfish one, while mine is distinctly benevolent.
- The bed threw a shadow on them both, but she could see his benevolent face, anxious and yet reassuring, rather clearly.
- The Railway Benevolent Institution provided a rallying point.
- Generally persons who associate for charitable or benevolent purposes do not regard themselves in a legal sense as partners.