kindly
/ˈkaɪn(d)li/ adjective A2- Having a kind personality; kind, warm-hearted, sympathetic. · A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons.
- Favourable, gentle, pleasant, tidy, auspicious, beneficent.
Comparative kindlier · Superlative kindliest
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Her dress was pure white but her eyes were blue, and they looked kindly upon the little girl.
He prayed and supplicated in terms so moving, that even the officer was touched, and, although firm in his duty, he kindly said, “My worthy friend, let me beg of you to calm your apprehensions.
“Suffer me, also, madame,” replied Villefort, “to add my earnest request to Mademoiselle de Saint-Méran’s, that you will kindly allow the veil of oblivion to cover and conceal the past.
Come, come,” continued he, patting Edmond’s shoulder kindly, “you did very right, Dantès, to follow Captain Leclere’s instructions, and touch at Elba, although if it were known that you had conveyed a packet to the marshal, and had conversed with the emperor, it might bring you into trouble.”
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