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samaritan

adjective

Definition of samaritan

as in compassionate

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Recent Examples of samaritan This law offers good samaritan protection for witnesses of university hazing who call 911 or attempt to give medical aid. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2025

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Adjective

Clancy was an attentive mother and a compassionate nurse, said Margaret Hamp, a nurse who worked with the defendant.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
His friends in Hawaii remember him as thoughtful, kind, and compassionate.

— Lorena O’Neil, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of compassionate

Adjective

Pearson, the ministry president, is sympathetic to the people lining up for help.

— Scott Horsley, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026
The show was considered an outlier in its generally sympathetic take on Hill and his conservative views, as well as in terms of the agency with which the show’s creators endowed its working- and middle-class characters.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of sympathetic

Adjective

So his church—which has raised many millions of dollars for good causes, and operates a local food pantry and food truck—decided to distribute lawn signs simply encouraging people to be kind.

— Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
Engler said even in her early days of stardom, Parton was always kind and pleasant.

— Jessica Guay, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of kind

Adjective

But her kindly and supportive cop boyfriend Nick (Brandon Perea) rightly insists that the duo should perhaps move out of the house when Gemma’s habitual nightmares intensify.

— Tomris Laffly, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
Charlotte Stewart’s bold gambit was rewarded with a four-season run as the kindly schoolteacher Eva Beadle-Simms.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of kindly

Adjective

Fraying lifeline Barred from legally working in Bangladesh, Rohingya depend almost entirely on humanitarian assistance.

— Lorcan Lovett, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026
Democratic senators and humanitarian groups questioned whether the cuts to the civilian protection personnel also contributed to the school tragedy.

— Megan Rose, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of humanitarian

Adjective

Bernstine brings just enough light to her tortured cop, while McNairy brings just enough anguish to his good-hearted caretaker.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 July 2026
At school, there are prickly Principal Anderson (Matt Oberg) and Donna (Amy Pietz, nice to see her), his good-hearted secretary, a champion of needy teens and, it will be revealed, Liz’s mother.

— Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026

Definition of good-hearted

Adjective

Deadpool is proving to be surprisingly magnanimous as the flippant character loses a box office record to The Odyssey.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2026
But Zakir Avşar, a professor at Ankara’s Hacı Bayram Veli University, urges a more magnanimous view of developments.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026

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