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Benevolent

• characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings: a benevolent attitude; her benevolent smile.

• good, kind, generous

compassionate

• having or showing compassion• pitying, sympathizing, sympathetic, tender

complimentary

• conveying, or expressing a compliment, often one that is politely flattering

• commendatory, praising, laudatory

Forthright

• going straight to the point• forthrightly, squarely, blunt, candid, frank

Serene

• calm, peaceful, or tranquil; unruffled• undisturbed, imperturbable, unperturbed,

composed, collected

Sympathetic

• looking upon with favor • commiserating, kind, tender, affectionate

Objective

• something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish

• object, destination, aim. 5. impartial, fair, impersonal, disinterested.

Bewildered

• completely puzzled or confused; perplexed• mystify, nonplus, confuse, daze, confound,

stagger, muddle

Condescending

• showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority

• patronizing, disdainful, supercilious.

Desolate

• barren or laid waste; devastated• ravaged. 2. desert. 4. lonesome, lost;

miserable, wretched, woebegone, woeful, inconsolable, cheerless, hopeless

Haughty

• disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious

• lordly, disdainful, contemptuous

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Indignant

• feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base

• angry, resentful, infuriated, mad

Melancholy

• a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression

• sadness, dejection, despondency. 2. seriousness. 4. gloomy, despondent, blue, dispirited, sorrowful, dismal, doleful, glum, downcast. 6. serious

Mocking

• to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision

• deride; taunt, flout, gibe; chaff, tease. 5. cheat, dupe, fool, mislead.

Ominous

• portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious

• Menacing , Portentous, Threatening , Fateful

Pessimistic

• pertaining to or characterized by • despairing, hopeless

Severe

• harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws. serious or stern in manner or appearance: a severe face. grave; critical

• strict, hard

Solemn

• grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person• unsmiling, serious, imposing, stately

Somber

• gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted• dusky, murky, sunless

Suspicious

• Questionable, tending to cause or excite • suspect, dubious, doubtful

Irreverent

• not reverent; manifesting or characterized by irreverence

• irreligious, impious, profane