How To Use Agreeable In A Sentence

  • The best wine vinegar may be made from either white or red wine, the latter having an agreeable mellow taste.
  • Unlike the phrenologists of the 19th century, DeYoung's team doesn't presume to know whether differences in the size of a brain region give rise to unique personality characteristics, or whether our personality differences cause our brains to develop in unique ways - say, that when we practice random acts of kindness, our "agreeableness" center grows larger, or that a lifetime of social isolation might cause a region associated with The Columbian stories: Columns
  • Blomquist also considered the possibility that the driver finds use of the seat belt disagreeable.
  • He switched on the lamp on his writing desk to provide his room with the most agreeable cast of light.
  • It was more a thing of his head than his heart, revealing itself mainly in short, acrid speeches, meant to be clever, and indubitably disagreeable. Mary Marston
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  • Everybody shouts it, mule-driver, "coachee," or cattle-driver; and even I, a passenger, fancied I could do it to disagreeable perfection after a time. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
  • What a charming possession of himself, that he could be in such a brangle, as I may call it, and which might have had fatal consequences; yet be so wholly, and so soon, divested of the subject; and so infinitely agreeable upon half a score others, as they offered from one or other as we sat at tea! Sir Charles Grandison
  • One day should be spent visiting some of the key vineyards, so I took advantage of the Discovery Pass and idled away two agreeable afternoons visiting Margaux and St Emilion.
  • Teenagers don't seem to understand that they don't have to actively misbehave to be disagreeable to older people.
  • That the islands are still an agreeable place to live is not in doubt, despite US claims that resettlement is unfeasible.
  • If you have a ticket, the web can make the experience less disagreeable. Times, Sunday Times
  • He found some disagreeable remnants — a watery stew, cold and sodden; a basin half-full of some kind of tinned soup; a chill suet pudding put away on a shelf. The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club
  • Josephine had to admit that the place, although dressed in a more Southwestern style, was quite agreeable.
  • My grandmother was agreeable to marrying Gaetano.
  • These terms were agreeable to the Magyar aristocracy, but could not satisfy the revolutionaries or moderates among the lesser nobility.
  • Compromises and concessions need to be reached on both sides, so that whatever choices are made about family and career are mutually acceptable and agreeable.
  • I may just have a bet on Milliband, Marxist toecap buffer, lives in an agreeable flat, no skeletons in his closet, Ttony likes him, Im reaching for my credit card right now. Blair Refuses to Rule Out Clarke's Departure
  • The talks are aimed at finding a mutually agreeable solution.
  • The fear of being disagreeable is a great bugbear to a girl, as this artful young man well knew, and Rose fell into the trap at once, for Aunt Jane was far from being her model, though she could not help respecting her worth. Rose in Bloom
  • A few trees scattered around gave an agreeable and silvan air to the place; and the chapel, that appeared on a rising ground at some distance from the hamlet, was constructed in a style of pleasing simplicity, which corresponded with the whole scene. Anne of Geierstein
  • An agreeable premise becomes an amusing but largely forgettable film. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even the vanilla buttercream piped onto an otherwise agreeable vanilla cupcake had a grainy, crystallized texture on one of my visits, as if the ratio of butter to sugar had gone astray.
  • The research has also found that today's comedians are less agreeable and less conscientious than average people. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are found in villages dotted about a landscape that is agreeable to tour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Should a professor choose to reject the study or insist on changes not agreeable to the sponsor, another university scientist will very likely be more solicitous.
  • She philandered with some of them up to the point where comparisons become inevitable, and, so long as they met her in a spirit of frank camaraderie, it was agreeable enough; but when, with their commonplace minds, they presumed to be sentimental, they became intolerable. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
  • Promiscuously and indefatigable to pursue all sorts of pleasures I own to be brutish, and to avoid all with a suitable aversion equally blockish, let the mind then freely enjoy such pleasures as are agreeable to its nature and temper. Essays and Miscellanies
  • People who score high on personality traits such as extroversion (think, outgoing) and agreeableness (cooperative) are most likely to enjoy group classes and team sports, Hagger told LiveScience. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • I accordingly furnished myself with two parcels, and found it very agreeable and pleasant; and in a short time I had the satisfaction of feeling the good effects of this pleasing and salutary medicine; and to confirm the services received from it, I am determined, for the future, to drink it instead of foreign teas, because I think it more grateful than any thing yet presented to the public as a stomatic; therefore in justice to your valuable discovery for the public good, you are welcome to communicate this information to the world at large; with the sincerest wishes for the general use of your excellent Tea. A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves
  • While it was already known that distilling sea water removed the salt, the process had always left a disagreeable taste.
  • However, last-borns perceived themselves as more agreeable, conscientious and open to experience than their siblings perceived them.
  • After a few miserable days at Flensburg, trying to make himself agreeable to Doenitz and to assert his importance; suffering humiliations that were a constant source of embarrassment to his staff; and deserted by many of his closest companions who had already set off on their private journeys to ranch cattle in the Argentine or collect butterflies in Switzerland, Barbarossa
  • The name caller is frustrated and wants you to return to being more "agreeable. Daylle Deanna Schwartz: I've Been Called Worse
  • In complete contrast to our disagreeable dining companion, the duck liver parfait he ordered was rich and smooth.
  • On the contrary, it turns to thoughts of sulphur tablets and camomile tea and other sickly or disagreeable circumventions of the "creakiness" of the human body. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
  • Council seemed reluctant to implement most of the requests without further study, though some seemed agreeable to the 2003 tax-freeze idea.
  • There is something disagreeable about Holden. The Times Literary Supplement
  • One unaccustomed to the use of bonga and chewing it for the first time, usually experiences a most disagreeable combination of symptoms; constriction of the oesophagus, a sensation of heat in the head and face, the latter becoming red and congested; at the same time dizziness and precordial distress are experienced. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • I was going to make the point that Churchill's heroism was not dependent on his being a particularly pleasant or agreeable man.
  • To summarize the most effective method of gaining attention -- _hit each sense to which you appeal as strongly as you can, without making a disagreeable impression, strike as many senses as possible, and keep on using your sense-hitting device as long as necessary to get or to recover exclusive favorable attention_. Certain Success
  • Some make a greater concession; they admit that disagreeable or unhealthy work -- such as sewerage -- could be paid for at a higher rate than agreeable work. The Conquest of Bread
  • They are found in villages dotted about a landscape that is agreeable to tour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Canada which is described in that Mappe is not marked as it is in my booke, which is agreeable to the booke of Iaques Cartier: and that the sayd Chart doth not marke or set downe The great Lake, which is aboue the The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
  • I am immensely impressed by the way in which the British juryman and jurywoman simply sits down to do this disagreeable duty though the heavens fall.
  • She recovered her equanimity, and was an agreeable image of serene dignity.
  • To enquire about a price is to enter into a binding agreement: the stall-holder will keep knocking the price until he or she arrives at a tariff agreeable to you.
  • To one possessed of wisdom, the acts of a former period (thus washed off) and those of this life also (which are accomplished without expectation of fruit), do not become productive of any disagreeable consequence (such as immurement in hell). The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
  • The stems are particularly full and smooth, and the heads of the best of them rustle back with a profusion of flaxen flowerage, remarkably agreeable to the touch. Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy
  • If I were planning to look for a new home, I would seek out the states where people had higher levels of conscientiousness and 'agreeableness' and lower levels of 'openness' and neuroticism. Vanishing American
  • It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such a one more agreeable and interesting. Archive 2010-01-01
  • Let us note, first of all, that hyperbole and apostrophe are the forms of language not only most agreeable to it but also most necessary.
  • If Bridget is agreeable to the proposal, we'll start the project in June.
  • Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. George Eliot 
  • He was agreeable to a request to help the Republican senator out.
  • The house was large and old, the furniture not much less ancient, the situation dreary, the roads everywhere bad, the soil a stiff clay, wet and dirty, except in the midst of summer, the country round it disagreeable, and in short, destitute of every thing that could afford any satisfaction to Mrs A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue
  • Benefactress! benefactress!" said I inwardly: "they all call Mrs. Reed my benefactress; if so, a benefactress is a disagreeable thing. Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.
  • The trot of the dromedary is a pace terribly disagreeable to the rider, until he becomes a little accustomed to it; but after the first half-hour I so far schooled myself to this new exercise, that Eothen
  • We are all agreeable to do what you suggest.
  • But he might make himself more agreeable. Daniel Deronda
  • Buelow was appointed kapellmeister of the Court Theatre; reforms, peculiarly disagreeable to those reformed, were set on foot; and singers, players, regisseurs, who had anticipated sleeping away their existence in the good old fashion, were violently awakened by this reckless adventurer, charlatan, and what not, who had won the King's ear. Wagner
  • It was a clean-cut, agreeable dish albeit a touch bland for more adventurous palates.
  • And Tito, who had just been looking into the ` Miscellanea, 'found so much to say that was agreeable to the secretary -- he would have done so from the mere disposition to please, without further motive -- that he showed himself quite worthy to be made a judge in the notable correspondence concerning the _culex_. Romola
  • Figure 4 implies that as men get more interested in shot-term hookups, they become less agreeable. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • We hope to reach a mutually agreeable solution as soon as possible. Times, Sunday Times
  • I will do anything -- _anything_, HILDA, to provide you with agreeable entertainment. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893
  • Easier than asking - as you sat in the social media choir stalls nodding at agreeable voices - what the hell you missed. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘Isn't that for sure,’ Joe mumbled not knowing what she meant but never liked to be disagreeable to a woman.
  • The Vice Dean reminded us of a significance of a comments of Enobarbus as a shrewd as good as mostly sarcastic spectator of this adore affair: an researcher both detered by his master's debility in agreeable to Cleopatra's charming energy as good as fascinated himself by a Egyptian queen's witchery. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
  • Hedonists have appropriated the term happiness as an equivalent to the totality of pleasurable or agreeable feeling. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
  • We hope to reach a mutually agreeable solution as soon as possible. Times, Sunday Times
  • The posterior cingulate cortex and superior temporal sulcus were larger in people who identified themselves as having many characteristics associated with agreeableness. SCIENCE NEWS
  • The trees that you plant to hide an unsightly building may grow to become the most agreeable feature of your garden. The Education of a Gardener
  • These make an agreeable walking surface and keep down weeds very effectively. The Education of a Gardener
  • The vast MAJORITY of rugby fans are agreeable and frequent the local restaurants and pubs with good humour and courtesy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now I propose, Mr. Premium, if it’s agreeable to you, a post-obit on Sir Oliver’s life: though at the same time the old fellow has been so liberal to me, that I give you my word, I should be very sorry to hear that any thing had happened to him. Act Third. Scene III
  • He was quite agreeable to accepting the plan.
  • The Vicomte called the contumely heaped on his father's name and his own, "a disagreeable scene. The Son of Monte-Cristo
  • A mediocrity, not disagreeable, always rules; supremity has been, is, and always will be the stick in the riffle around which the little whirlpool will always centre. The Common Law
  • To say over a few agreeable bottles that things were not as good as they used to be might be considered reasonable. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • What ever dressing was on those greens of yours is quite agreeable.
  • Indeed the wide diffusion of letters in the States, that favourite theme for boasting and bragging over the unenlightened and analphabetic Old World, has tended only to exaggerate the defective and disagreeable side of a national character lacking geniality and bristling with prickly individuality. Arabian nights. English
  • The latter was much more agreeable than his companion expected. Pride and Prejudice
  • So what are disagreeable people like? Times, Sunday Times
  • Still, it was essentially agreeable entertainment with a wacky sense of humour leavened by slightly sobering grace notes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Whether the gentlemen were agreeable to each other was less evident. Daniel Deronda
  • The minister in Gods name blesses his i.e. Gods people agreeable to the practice of the apostles, who generally close the epistles with a benediction in the name of the Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771
  • He was a consummate horseman, an agreeable companion, a hospitable host.
  • She knew there would be evil, but she had expected it in a more striking and less disagreeable form. The Daisy Chain
  • They are found in villages dotted about a landscape that is agreeable to tour. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'As for amusement, I could kill rats as I used to do; or slaughter a hecatomb of pheasants at Babington,' -- here the old man winced, though the word hecatomb reconciled him a little to the disagreeable allusion. John Caldigate
  • Mrs. Dods put on a joyous countenance at this proposal, protesting that all should be done in her power to make things agreeable; and while her good friend, Mr. Bindloose, expatiated upon the comfort her new guest would experience at the Cleikum, she silently contemplated with delight the prospect of a speedy and dazzling triumph, by carrying off a creditable customer from her showy and successful rival at the Well. Saint Ronan's Well
  • Exposure to such pressures is apt to be followed by disagreeable and even dangerous physiological effects, which are commonly referred to as caisson disease or compressed air illness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
  • She and a friend were cage diving when the shark decided they would make an agreeable light snack. Times, Sunday Times
  • For so you must allow me to call you, after your being so kind as to send me so valuable and agreeable a present as your translation of Horace (490) -- I wish compliment had left any term uninvaded, Of which sincerity could make use without suspicion. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
  • an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time
  • Is the plan agreeable to you?
  • That was such a disagreeable thing to be part of, such a horrible thing to be part of, but we were. Times, Sunday Times
  • It has a most agreeable leathery smell, and a gentle creak which is very pleasant. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
  • Many things might be good for them which would be very disagreeable for other people. North and South
  • The main objective is to find a solution agreeable to the company in terms of its feasibility and cost.
  • It was painful to leave such an agreeable companion, but then what a relief it was to escape from the cannie Scots! Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
  • I interpret the distribution as a mutually agreeable division of the chattels in question.
  • Lying there beside her, he was filled with an agreeable languor.
  • The five factors are openness to experience, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness and neuroticism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Meanwhile in Cardiff, an unpleasant political became a still more disagreeable labour situation rather quickly.
  • This was very baffling to his suit; but then these slumbers were accompanied by agreeable dreams, which completely inthralled the senses of the drowsy lover, so he continued to dream on, while all Granada scoffed at his infatuation, and groaned at the treasures lavished for a song. The Alhambra
  • This may not be intentional, but it makes for agreeable hokum. Times, Sunday Times
  • It has an agreeable courtyard with an elegant staircase and houses a small museum dealing with the history of Funchal.
  • The Charlie Brown Theory of Personality, James C Kaufman PhD posits the theory that Lucy represents "disagreeableness". The Guardian World News
  • Yet there was another agreeable alternative to rugby which promised to allay my fear of monotony. Seminary Boy
  • Certified reformed peoples, we may add to this stage, are proptably saying to quite agreeable deef. Finnegans Wake
  • 'spiffing' and 'good egg' in my humble, but their use all helps to ensure that there is a slightly dotty, frenetic, flapperish atmosphere which makes these stories so agreeable. Random Jottings of a Book and Opera Lover
  • Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. George Eliot 
  • The opportunity to enhance income through night visits may soften less agreeable effects of practice with the contract.
  • The Porpus is common on this coast and as far up the river as the water is brackish. the Indians sometimes gig them and always eat the flesh of this fish when they can precure it; to me the flavour is disagreeable. the Skaite is also common to the salt water, I have seen several of them that had perished and were thrown out on the beach by the tide. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
  • Barby, I believe, has a good opinion of us, and charitably concludes that we mean right; but some other of our country friends would think I was far gone in uppishness if they knew that I never touch fish with a steel knife; and it wouldn't mend the matter much to tell them that the combination of flavours is disagreeable to me – it hardly suits the doctrine of liberty and equality that my palate should be so much nicer than theirs. Queechy
  • Miss Dior Cherie is now the “New Chypre”, classified as a fruity chypre, this time strawberries, paired with the less than agreeable combination of patchouli and caramel popocorn. Archive 2006-11-01
  • It takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable
  • It was described by the Arctic explorer Richardson in the mid-19th century as ‘a small white root about the thickness of a goose quill, which had an agreeable nutty flavor’.
  • She continues to grow beyond her billing as a singer of jazz standards, but even more striking is the agreeable roughness of this selected rough mix.
  • Same goes for thoughts, if those thoughts are disagreeable to me, I would not agree with them regardless of how honourable you are or how many others are willing to vouchsafe for you.
  • This little society now past two or three very agreeable hours together, in which the uncle, who was a very great lover of his bottle, had so well plyed his nephew, that this latter, though not drunk, began to be somewhat flustered; and now Mr. Nightingale, taking the old gentleman with him upstairs into the apartment he had lately occupied, unbosomed himself as follows: - The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • If you're agreeable to our proposal, we'll go ahead.
  • I was never very good at this sort of thing - this being pleasant, affable, agreeable.
  • The trot of the dromedary is a pace terribly disagreeable to the rider, until he becomes a little accustomed to it; but after the first half-hour Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
  • His wife took no notice of his cries and groans, for it was quite as agreeable to her to be the only speaker, and have her moaning husband a kind of assenting chorus. Old Fritz and the New Era
  • The reason for the difference between studies, says Gosling, may be that extroversion and agreeableness are interpersonal traits that require more information about how the person interacts with other people.
  • To say over a few agreeable bottles that things were not as good as they used to be might be considered reasonable. PHYLLOXERA: How Wine was Saved for the World
  • I found a handkerchief tied close, but not too tightly, round the eyes for a whole night, to be a more effectual remedy for this disagreeable complaint than any application of eyewater; and my companions being induced to try the same experiment, derived equal benefit from it. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
  • Eventually he found an agreeable home in the University of Utah where his inventive genius could work unhindered.
  • So how can the agreeable person make it to the top? Times, Sunday Times
  • quite agreeable", and that his sister would give up her place in the carriage and go by train; and Deb, facing him with the air of a duchess, thought how thoroughly "shoppy" his manner was. Sisters
  • The main objective is to find a solution agreeable to the company in terms of its feasibility and cost.
  • It was dangerous work on a rockbound coast with strong currents and huge tides, but Champlain found it “very agreeable.” Champlain's Dream
  • It takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable
  • The study also suggested that agreeableness improved throughout life and particularly during people's 30s.
  • I'm fortunate enough to make a bit of money from commissions, but I also earn a living as a freelance subeditor, which is very agreeable. BugPowder Weblog
  • We do, after all, have to coexist with our colleagues, even if we find some of them disagreeable if not downright objectionable - while regarding others with perhaps undeserved reverence.
  • Why wouldn't they accept right now a middle person whose decision is final, an arbitrator agreeable to both sides?
  • My head felt like a cannon ball; my feet had a tendency to cleave to the floor; the walls at times undulated in a most disagreeable manner; people looked unnaturally big; and the "very bottles on the mankle shelf" appeared to dance derisively before my eyes. Hospital Sketches
  • This pulque, or octli, has an acid resembling that of cider, and a very disagreeable odor, but the taste is cooling and refreshing. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
  • It was more agreeable, in an hour of self-collectedness, to devise a remedy, which, if it did not cure the disease, helped at least to cicatrize the immediate wounds. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
  • It often depends on the actual size of the specimens selected as sub-adults are often more agreeable than fully grown ones.
  • It's to do my duty as a physician, and they often have disagreeable outcomes when you do your duty, and this is one very disagreeable outcome.
  • That contact was not always peaceful and agreeable.
  • The topography is agreeable to hiking and walking safaris are allowed.
  • He just seems so nice and kind and agreeable, no matter what he's saying.
  • found the task disagreeable and decided to abandon it
  • Time was when he was lean of girth -- as becomes an accountant, who is hinged dyspeptically all day across his desk -- but by this agreeable stowage he has now grown to plumpness. Chimney-Pot Papers
  • Surely, since we would not intentionally create such disagreeableness, it must be the product of irresistible unconscious forces.
  • Scientists now widely believe people generally fall into five personality traits: open, conscientious, extravert, agreeable or neurotic. The 5 Big Personality Traits: Which One Are You?
  • The photography here is suitably stunning - an agreeable way to forget about the weather outside. Times, Sunday Times
  • What's more, I contend that a person who is self-assured and who is not desirous of doing an activity which he/she considers disagreeable will have no need for alcohol.
  • We hope to reach a mutually agreeable solution as soon as possible. Times, Sunday Times
  • And then nothing was left but a heap of disagreeables, a mass of corruption, a senile and disgusting old man fit only for the charity of nuns and the protection of an asylum. The Common Reader, Second Series
  • Mexico. 11 The language of Nootka is by no means harsh or disagreeable; for it abounds, upon the whole, rather with what may be called labial and dental, than with guttural sounds. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
  • It is that tender, chiding, mutual affection which makes these beautifully translated letters between them so agreeable to read.
  • Sure, some people through their personality (extraversion, agreeableness) have probably acquired more skills than others by early adulthood. Times, Sunday Times
  • This guy's maps say that Oklahomans are tops in "agreeableness" and "conscientiousness When maps collide
  • In like manner if the actions of the stomach, intestines, and various glands, which are perhaps in part at least caused by or catenated with agreeable sensation, and which perpetually exist during our waking hours, were like the voluntary motions suspended in our sleep; the great accumulation of sensorial power, which would necessarily follow, would be liable to excite inflammation in them. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • This picture has been recently wretchedly engraved in mezzotinto; all that is in the picture firm and hard, is in the print soft, fuzzy, and disagreeable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
  • He said it would take some time to launch the fund, as more study needs to be done ‘to come up with the most suitable mechanism agreeable to everybody.’
  • Imagine a rambling, patchy house, the best part built of gray stone, and red-tiled, a round tower jutting at one of the corners, the mellow darkness of its conical roof surmounted by a weather-cock making an agreeable object either amidst the gleams and greenth of summer or the low-hanging clouds and snowy branches of winter: the ground shady with spreading trees: a great tree flourishing on one side, backward some Daniel Deronda
  • That was such a disagreeable thing to be part of, such a horrible thing to be part of, but we were. Times, Sunday Times
  • And I also have a feeling I would find his ideas uninteresting or unagreeable. Back off you Shakespearists!
  • Now nothing, to a common observer, could be less à-propos than Bronze’s foregoing speech was to Miss Milvar; but the name chimed in so pleasantly with the agreeable dreams, that Sir Philip thought the l’on dit quite à-propos also. The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale
  • But no sooner did he declare himself in form, than the gaudy wretch, as he was before with her, became a well-dressed gentleman; — the chattering magpie (for he talks and laughs much), quite conversable, and has something agreeable to say upon every subject. Pamela
  • These achivar are neither asleep nor feeding, and if we were to come to a stop the dyella might decide spineless Tran are more agreeable prey than speedy, spiny achivar. The Deluge Drivers
  • The Councillor then added the business people of the town would not be agreeable to the on-street parking charges if long term parking was not provided.
  • He kept the young man to dinner, and made himself very agreeable by the freedom and liveliness of his conversation, especially when warmed by a flask or two of Tuscan wine.
  • The results of this study as well as prior studies suggest that narcissists do care more about being perceived as superior on agentic traits (e.g., industriousness, assertiveness, dominance) compared to communal traits (e.g., agreeableness and honesty). Do Narcissists Know They Are Narcissists?
  • Some faculty members viewed such episodes as part of the eccentricity and disagreeableness that occur in academic life.
  • It will take planning, but the trick is to work something out that's agreeable to both families, Meantime, you guys can talk anytime you want!
  • Alongside Mone's name, however, we are troubled to find that of Sir Alan Sugar, who was so disagreeable to Lynn Barber recently.
  • It's a question that should raise only agreeable options and pleasant anticipation. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the other hand (this is the third hand) we ladies sometimes call our bellies 'poochey' or other terms, not exactly terms of endearment, when we've eaten something disagreeable, and the alimentary canal in those parts tend to react and makes the belly stick out. The Moderate Voice
  • I must make myself very disagreeable, or she would not have said such a thing to an old friend. Emma
  • Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
  • Brent Donnellan, a psychologist from the University of California, Davis, who has looked at traits that contribute to a long-lasting marriage, identified openness and agreeableness as key factors.
  • Modesty or Pudor required in all your actions: This is the Virtue I shall labour to describe, which description I hope will be sufficient to direct you towards the acquisition of that agreeable deportment, which hath the power to concilate and procure the applause & affection of all sorts of people. The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex
  • I need scarcely expatiate upon the delicate and long-continuing fragrance which this luxuriant perfume imparts to all things with which it comes in contact; it is peculiarly calculated for the drawer, writing-desk, &c. since its aroma is totally unmingled with that most disagreeable effluvium, which is ever proceeding from alcohol. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828
  • In general, the agreeable fumes of the "Aina" were created by one's own inhalations; but Donjalolo deeming the solace too dearly purchased by any exertion of the royal lungs, regaled himself through those of his attendants, whose lips were as moss-rose buds after a shower. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
  • She was the viceroy's mistress; and though the viceroy might be a very agreeable man, he was a Spaniard, and not likely to be easy-going in his love affairs. Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 27: Expelled from Spain
  • The clergyman, a tall, high-coloured, handsome young man, read the service in a lively, agreeable voice, giving almost a dramatic point to the chapters of Scripture which he read. The Virginians
  • We must find a compromise that is agreeable to both sides of the party.
  • I have to admit I find the name a little disagreeable on the aesthetic front.
  • It takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable
  • Now that which is of divine birth has a period which is contained in a perfect number, but the period of human birth is comprehended in a number in which first increments by involution and evolution (or squared and cubed) obtaining three intervals and four terms of like and unlike, waxing and waning numbers, make all the terms commensurable and agreeable to one another. The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
  • He came over as very modest and unassuming and extremely agreeable. Times, Sunday Times
  • All allusions, therefore, recalling his mortifying defeat were disagreeable to him. Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp
  • If China is agreeable to this, security cooperation among the United States, Japan, and South Korea could proceed in tandem with China's cooperation.
  • The kind of liveliness, however, caused by the presence of seven or eight hundred students, is not always of the most agreeable character. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
  • She knew there would be evil, but she had expected it in a more striking and less disagreeable form. The Daisy Chain
  • And therefore I think it no way agreeable to a true natural Historian, to pretend to be so sharp-sighted, as to see what a pre-conceiv'd _Hypothesis_ tells them should be there, where another man, though perhaps as seeing, but not forestall'd, can discover no such matter. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
  • It takes a lot of thought and effort and downright determination to be agreeable
  • Members of the family say the eel is an agreeable house pet, that eats twice a day and is fond of strips of raw chicken or fish.
  • Pray undeceive my Mother with regard to the agreeable mistake as to the repairs — Letter 96
  • Nevertheless, it's unnecessarily disagreeable to suggest to his face that your interviewer actively wishes you ill.
  • No, she's suing because when she said no, her kids became disagreeable and "pouted" - for which she wants class action status. NY Daily News
  • Dr. Lanou suggests eating sweet potatoes, green beans, corn, carrots and other vegetables that are agreeable to almost everyone.

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