unbenevolent

• a word derived from benevolent.
  benevolent

  adjective

  characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings.

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unbenevolent

It was that, in the face of a Heaven known to be decidedly unbenevolent, it takes unrelenting, thankless, and mostly ill-rewarded work to cultivate happiness here on earth, no matter what color the soil.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2015

The happy independence enjoyed in this highly-favoured land is nowhere better illustrated than in the fact that no domestic can be treated with cruelty or insolence by an unbenevolent or arrogant master.

From Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

He was a man of sixty, with a keen but not unbenevolent face, looking all the more sagacious, perhaps, because of a pair of gold spectacles which surmounted his nose.

From The Tin Box and What it Contained by Horatio Alger

I never heard that the French, Germans, Spaniards, or Italians, were addicted to this unbenevolent wit, if cowardly imposition can merit that name.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Benjamin Waterhouse

At supper the miser was in a mood not unbenevolent.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Related Words

• benign
• caring
• compassionate
• generous
• humane
• philanthropic