unbenevolent
- a word derived from benevolent.
Example Sentences
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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
"When the chance comes take it," Conaran continued, and he smiled a black, beetle-browed, unbenevolent smile.
From Irish Fairy Tales by Stephens, James
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 Alger, Horatio
At supper the miser was in a mood not unbenevolent.
From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
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 Moodie, Susanna
