| 释义 |
benignantly
adverb
formaluk /bɪˈnɪɡ.nənt.li/ us /bɪˈnɪɡ.nənt.li/
in a way that is pleasant and kind:
The man on the corner smiled benignantly and asked if we were having a good day.
The woman benignantly listened to the young buskers performing their song before dropping some money into their open guitar case.
Related word
benignant
The headteacher smiled benignantly as the students filed into the building for the first day of the school year.
The museum guard greeted us benignantly and showed us the way to the Impressionist paintings.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Kind & thoughtful
accommodating
accommodatingly
attentive
attentively
attentiveness
diplomacy
diplomatic
diplomatically
eunoia
fatherly
neighbourliness
neighbourly
nice
nicely
not have a bad/dishonest/racist, etc. bone in your bodyidiom
thoughtfulness
unmalicious
unmaliciously
unspoiled
warm-hearted
|