ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

take an interest in, feel an interest in; be interested in, feel interested in; sympathize with,
empathize with, feel for; fraternize &c (be friendly) 888.
enter into the feelings of others, do as you would be done by, meet halfway.
treat well; give comfort, smooth the bed of death; do good, do a good turn; benefit &c
(goodness) 648; render a service, be of use; aid &c 707.
Adj. benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating,
indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored.
warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad-hearted; merciful &c
914; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant; bounteous, bountiful.
good-natured, well-natured; spleenless † ; sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant &c
(courteous) 894; well-meant, well-intentioned.
fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal, fraternal; sororal † ; friendly
&c 888.
Adv. with a good intention, with the best intentions.
Int. Godspeed!, much good may it do!,
Phr. act a charity sometimes [Lamb]; a tender heart, a will inflexible [Longfellow]; de
mortuis nil nisi bonum [Lat.], say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the
dead; kind words are more than coronets [Tennyson]; quando amigo pide no hay manana
[Lat.]; the social smile, the sympathetic tear [Gray].
907. Malevolence -- N. malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness † ;
ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity &c 889; hate &c 898; malignity; malice,
malice prepense † ; maliciousness &c adj.; spite, despite; resentment &c 900.
uncharitableness &c adj.; incompassionateness &c 914.1 [Obs.]; gall, venom, rancor,
rankling, virulence, mordacity † , acerbity churlishness &c (discourtesy) 895.
hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness &c adj.; brutality,
savagery; ferity † , ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity † , truculence, ruffianism; evil
eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection.
ill turn, bad turn; affront &c (disrespect) 929; outrage, atrocity; ill usage; intolerance,
persecution; tender mercies [Iron.]; unkindest cut of all [Julius Caesar].
V. be malevolent &c adj.; bear spleen, harbor spleen, bear a grudge, harbor a grudge,
bear malice; betray the cloven foot, show the cloven foot.
hurt &c (physical pain) 378; annoy &c 830; injure., harm, wrong; do harm to, do an ill
office to; outrage; disoblige, malign, plant a thorn in the breast.
molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with;
hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use.
wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel; dip one's hands
in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood; have no mercy &c 914.1.
Adj. malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign; ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, illconditioned,
ill-contrived; evil-minded, evil-disposed; black-browed † .
malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful; mordacious, caustic,
bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent; unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent,
venomous, grinding, galling.
harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious † ; invidious; uncandid;
churlish &c (discourteous) 895; surly, sullen &c 901.1.