How To Use Affability In A Sentence
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Yeo lowered his tone and scowled at the plump Bonini, who was bearing down upon them with hostly affability.
The Fashion in Shrouds
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The TV listings call Larry King "avuncular," which describes his affability but sets him somewhat apart from his guests.
Jerry Weissman: The Art & Science of Oprah Winfrey: Part III
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Mid-way through her answer, her neatly measured affability gives way to a decided prickliness.
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He just trundled on, his public school affability masking a lack of clear thought.
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The fact of Madame Olenska's "foreignness" could hardly have been more adroitly emphasised than by this farewell tribute; and Mrs. van der Luyden accepted her displacement with an affability which left no doubt as to her approval.
The Age of Innocence
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His affability and lack of duplicity did not set him in good stead for his dealings with the sleazier side of 1980s politics.
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His disposition is said to be most amiable and genial, and his affability endeared him especially to his own countrymen, by whom he was called alii lokomaikai, “the kind chief.”
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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He was a brilliant attorney with a self-effacing kindness and affability unlike any I have ever seen.
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Our affability is the armor that protects the inner sensitive personality.
The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers
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His affability was a welcome change from the stridency of Eliot Spitzer, yet Paterson quickly proved an unreliable steward.
NY Post: News
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Halbert, "doubt not that thy faithful Affability will be more commoved by the speech of this rudesby, than the bright and serene moon is perturbed by the baying of the cottage-cur, proud of the height of his own dunghill, which, in his conceit, lifteth him nearer unto the majestic luminary.
The Monastery
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He was noted for his conservative Republicanism, his fervent anticommunism, and his appealing personal style, characterized by a jaunty affability and folksy charm.
Five People Born on February 6 | myFiveBest
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After a moment his thunderous brows drew apart and his narrowed eyes resumed their usual look of sapphirine affability.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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The dog represents loyalty, while the pig represents affability.
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Some were seated with patrician affability at windows with dramatic swagged curtains.
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She just has an affability about her and a niceness about her that permeates everything she does.
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Good appearance and manner, flexible and have strong affability.
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a person to whom someone does not fear to be disagreeable: whence arises quarreling, which is opposed to the aforesaid friendship or affability, to which it belongs to behave agreeably towards those among whom we dwell.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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-- Gothic affability is the mode you think proper to adopt, the condescension of a Baron, not the civility of a liberal man (47).
Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
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But they exude a certain affability on-screen and off.
The Ferrett Is An Idiot
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Certainly ... they do not seem to have been a company of gentle, dreamy and euphemistical saints, with a particular aptitude for martyrdom and an inordinate development of affability.
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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Parker will report on what's in the bottle, courageously unconcerned by the reputation on the label or by the affability of the wine-maker.
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And then big Gordon is all over me, all affability and large whiskies.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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O'Neill, despite his apparent affability and a tendency to circumlocution, is a tough little nut.
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When the housekeeper courtesied, Mr. Pickwick bowed with the utmost politeness, and when he bowed, the housekeeper courtesied again; between the housekeeper and the barber, I should say that Mr. Pickwick faced about and bowed with undiminished affability fifty times at least.
Master Humphrey's Clock
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Reply Obj. 3: Austerity, as a virtue, does not exclude all pleasures, but only such as are excessive and inordinate; wherefore it would seem to pertain to affability, which the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 6) calls "friendliness," or _eutrapelia_, otherwise wittiness.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Certainly ... they do not seem to have been a company of gentle, dreamy and euphemistical saints, with a particular aptitude for martyrdom and an inordinate development of affability.”
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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His disposition is said to be most amiable and genial, and his affability endeared him especially to his own countrymen, by whom he was called alii lokomaikai, "the kind chief.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Described as ‘a model of affability and dignity… remarkable for his fine form and manly beauty,’ he was something of a dandy whose favorite overcoat was made of sable skins lined with scarlet broadcloth.
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Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel
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Dignified affability is the becomingness of superiority, which while it does not remove the line of distinction, does not render it painfully visible.
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Below his preternatural affability there is some acid and steel.
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The words came as easily from his lips as if his practice in affability had been of the very longest.
The Filigree Ball
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The virtue of justice comes wrapped in other tempering traits: gratitude, liberality, affability, and mercy.
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We must now consider the friendliness which is called affability, and the opposite vices which are flattery and quarreling.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Perhaps his ability to weather the ebb and flow of public fickleness lies in his sheer affability and generosity of spirit.
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He was a silent, rather sullen man, and you felt that his affability was a duty that he imposed upon himself Christianly; he was by nature reserved and even morose.
The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
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‘Mr Reid,’ she piped in a voice that was a caricature of affability.
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But affability alone does not guarantee success.
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This usage proceeded, in part, from the notion of consanguinity between every member of a clan, even of the lowest degree, to his chieftain, and the affability and courtesy with which the head was in the habit of treating those over whom he ruled.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
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His dignified person and agreeable countenance, with the most unaffected affability gave me high satisfaction.
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He conciliated the people by his affability, brought in Englishmen to teach various handicrafts and tried to help the farmers by improving the breed of Manx horses, and, at the same time, he restricted the exactions of the Church.
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Below his preternatural affability there is some acid and steel.
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But affability, like intelligence, can mask a mean and meager spirit as well as the absence of a sense of proportion.
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He lost his easy affability, his prankishness, and much of his good humor.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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Therefore affability, which is what we mean by friendship, is a special virtue.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Ah, the terms and forms survive," he said, with a kind of pedagogic affability, "after the substance has disappeared.
The Market-Place
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When afterwards, in the course of our gregarious walk, I found myself for half an hour, not perhaps without another manoeuvre, at the great man's side, the result of his affability was a still livelier desire that he shouldn't remain in ignorance of the peculiar justice I had done him.
The Figure in the Carpet
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The dog represents loyalty, while the pig represents affability.
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Now Affability may be confix derd, either as a mere human Accomplifh* ment, or as a divine Vertue: in either notion
The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts
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When afterwards, in the course of our gregarious walk, I found myself for half an hour, not perhaps without another manoeuvre, at the great man's side, the result of his affability was a still livelier desire that he should not remain in ignorance of the peculiar justice I had done him.
Embarrassments
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Bucket in the book is all-knowing, all-seeing - he continually sets the scene yet with a certain modestness of scope or at least affability.
Bleak House