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Meanings of kindly in English
Portuguese
naturalmente Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity.
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Examples for "sympathetic"
Examples for "sympathetic"
1
China have hardly been sympathetic to the Europeans' plight in recent weeks.
2
I think it's just a straight, sympathetic human response to the situation.
3
A moment later, Sam heard Tricia's whispered voice, crooning sympathetic, nonsensical words.
4
It's good to kinda view them in a sympathetic light, you know.
5
My teacher was also sympathetic, so I'm going to appeal that result.
1
She immersed herself in charitable work, especially the philanthropic Good Neighbor Initiative.
2
Within five years, 40 schools, convents and four charitable institutions were founded.
3
After all, legacy donations remain the primary way of funding charitable activities.
4
He said the changes will liberalise access to £78bn of charitable assets.
5
Far less charitable were the sentiments of Dundas in the following letter:
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The public hospitals and the benevolent societies frequently shared in the receipts.
2
Farewell; accept my corrections in the benevolent spirit of a true friend.
3
The solicitor was right to think that he had only benevolent intentions.
4
Such language is designed to make violence sound benevolent and infamy honourable.
5
His doctrines are the liberal and benevolent doctrines of the nineteenth century.
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The good-hearted Kalantar immediately gave him employment and treated him most generously.
2
He was a good-hearted old fellow, but very rough in his talk.
3
In common parlance, Walter was as good-hearted a fellow as ever breathed.
4
She knew how good-hearted he was, beneath the constant demands for perfection.
5
The Indian people is, by nature, it is true, gentle and good-hearted.
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Her father liked to hear about grandmother and the kindly, large-hearted Major.
2
So saying, he nestled snugly and confidingly against the large-hearted serpent-whofled.
3
They point to the doomed vulnerability of large-hearted idealism in the public sphere.
4
Solid, substantial comfort and large-hearted hospitality were the objects in all his expenditures.
5
Napoleon was the son of his mother, the large-hearted and high-minded Letitia Ramolina.
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All the ladies were so happy and openhearted and eager to love.
2
This drew immediately from Lord Byron the following frank and openhearted reply:
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And this wasn't drunk talk; this was sincere, openhearted, maternal advisement.
4
Alice's father was a sweet man-tooopenhearted, I always supposed, to be in business.
5
He gloried in her, steeped his soul in her passion, in her openhearted desire.
Usage of kindly in English
1
I think it's quite good in its own way, Sid said kindly.
2
Coles kindly agreed to discuss this important issue with the EBONY community.
3
Will you kindly tell me what good the house would do 'him'?
4
My party today will be all the result of your kindly generosity.
5
If you'll kindly take all the necessary steps as soon as possible.
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Her Labour Party colleagues also spoke kindly of her time in Parliament.
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The English government did not take too kindly either to the news.
8
He dug the graves, and laid the corpse in the kindly soil.
9
The former then looked the stranger kindly in the eye and replied:
10
A kindly female voice said, You're going to be all right, darling.
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His father would not look kindly on him if he simply left.
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Some nights the kindly man would allow her to ask him questions.
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But the real goodwill and kindly feeling in the banter redeemed it.
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Our whole social circle shared in the pleasure of this kindly magic.
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You can also remind fellow climbers to be patient-askindly as possible.
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Of course, friends kindly pointed out that it's all downhill from now.
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