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  • Okay, maybe I could be a little bitter at my own unbenevolent fortune.

    All Together Dead Harris, Charlaine 2007

  • But at the same time, as they marked their mourning, they didn't want Britain to feel that they were enforcing some sort of feeling on the whole country because frankly feelings here have been a bit unbenevolent about Princess Margaret.

    CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2002 2002

  • "When the chance comes take it," Conaran continued, and he smiled a black, beetle-browed, unbenevolent smile.

    Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916

  • There is no contempt, no mockery here; nothing that ministers an atom of food to any unbenevolent emotion: the subjects are made delicious as well as laughable; and delicious withal through the best and kindliest feelings of our nature.

    Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

  • 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.

    The Tin Box and What it Contained Horatio Alger 1865

  • 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.

    Roughing It in the Bush 1852

  • There is no contempt, no mockery here; nothing that ministers an atom of food to any unbenevolent emotion: the subjects are made delicious as well as laughable; and delicious withal through the best and kindliest feelings of our nature.

    Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850

  • 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.

    Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

  • Some might protest at this unbenevolent assessment, claiming that in fact it was a brilliant political maneuver, placing the onus on the Palestinians, exposing their "true face" and cutting the ground away from political rivals such as Kadima.

    IRIS Blog 2009

  • Keeping silent in the face of such gross injustice will merely ensure that we get what we deserve, an unbenevolent and despotic government.

    Malaysiakini 2008

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