How To Use Amiability In A Sentence
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I wish to ask your pardon for my silly speeches at the table, and for all my unamiability, and to assure you I have not forgotten your great services to me, and I am not ungrateful.
The Rose of Old St. Louis
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There was some simple, radical difference about him; he hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.
The Worst Years of Your Life
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In the second half of the book, Athill describes, with a strange combination of amiability and mercilessness, the main writers with whom she worked.
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First families are often very agreeable, undeniably respectable, fearfully virtuous, and it takes great faith to resist an evil principle which incarnates itself in the suavities of their breeding and amiability; and therefore it was that Mrs. Scudder felt her heart heavy within her, and could with a very good grace have joined in the Doctor's
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
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She saw Richard's quick, sharp glance at both of them, and then his shuttered amiability descended again.
THE WHITE DOVE
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He combined an inherent amiability and decency, a lightning-fast wit, and shrewd and opportunistic appreciation of the emerging media of his era, with a canny awareness of how far satire could go without giving offense.
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Whether cast as heroes or villains, Horst Tappert had an air of amiability about him that was hard to dislike, a hangdog avuncularity that put him in the company of actors like Walter Matthau and Peter Falk.
Death Notice: Horst Tappert
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It is not to be called amiability, it is her duty; a slave does not dictate to a master.
The Count of Monte Cristo
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The amiability is the author's and it is the amiability of the measured Augustan, who sees life steadily, sees it whole and gets a jolly good laugh out of it.
The Coffee House | Politics and News Discussion Forum
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I ventured feebly to say that I did not see how progress could be made in any art or science, or indeed in anything at all, without more or less self-seeking, and hence unamiability.
Erewhon
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But you are not to blame Christianity for the stupidity and unamiability of Christians.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862
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So decidedly are amiability and mildness their characteristics, that I confess I look upon that youth who distinguished himself by the slaughter of these inoffensive persons, as a false-hearted brigand, who, pretending to philanthropic motives, was secretly influenced only by the wealth stored up within their castles, and the hope of plunder.
American Notes for General Circulation
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Her face registered my presence like a camera shutter, flashing from smiling expectancy, through complete surprise, and then back to restrained amiability.
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Notwithstanding, however, the unamiability with which he reproaches his companions in arms, there was much fun and feasting, and sauntering in the Prado, and bull-fighting and theatre-going, whilst the British were at Madrid.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
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The shark of the Saipan amiability small toy.
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I'm just trying to understand this sudden amiability.
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The mere absence of rocks gave the soil a kind of amiability and generosity, and the absence of natural boundaries gave the spirit a wider range.
The song of the lark
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There was a general feeling of amiability and sisterhood.
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And even if she did, in the noble spirit of altruism, rather than selfishness, the next woman, with one reproachful glance at her, would pick up the mutilated remains of the man's vanity and apply the splints of her respectful attention and the balm of her admiration, partly to add a new scalp to her belt, and partly to show off the unamiability of her sister woman.
From a Girl's Point of View
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It should be noted here that one of the bitterest of tongues could not help doing homage to Oscar Wilde's "amiability": Whistler even preferred to call him "amiable and irresponsible" rather than give his plagiarism a harsher attribute.
Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions
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Always the portent was a shadow behind their interest and amiability and jealousy.
The Border Legion
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I was sorry to miss such an evening, and think I could forego tiddledywinks with a fair degree of amiability if, instead, I could hear such a man talk.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
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But without a doubt, the main reason for his amiability was the immense improvement that had taken place in Purdy: it was noticeable even as the latter entered the drawing-room.
The Way Home
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It was in this make-up that he always saw her when he thought of her years after: Nile green dress, bowed head, sitting at the quilting frame, and quite unaware of his presence, a picture of unamiability, conscious or affected.
Gänsemännchen. English
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His blond hair was trimmed close to his scalp, but the severity of the cut didn't spoil the amiability of his features.
GALILEE
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He may be insecure, but his insecurity expresses itself not in egomania or depression, but in a garrulous, love-me-do amiability.
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Love is a terrible thing -- quite different from amiability, which is sometimes confused with it.
The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder
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His disarming amiability and jocular charm were irresistible, but his art was immediately compelling on its own terms, and largely responsible for fueling all the interest.
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I wish to acquaint your love in Christ that the very zealous brethren who have been commissioned by your reverence to act for you in this good work have won praise for all the clergy by the amiability of their manners; for by their individual modesty and conciliatoriness they have shewn the sound condition of all.
NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
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I hate all that false amiability that goes on at parties.
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Nevertheless, his wealth and amiability gave him standing, he was chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Pembroke College was refounded in his honour.
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My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency, which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received.
Recollections of My Youth
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But it is with sincere amiability that the imperial writer, who was indeed little used to be ironical, adds that the lively respect and affection of the junior had often "gladdened" him.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
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A demonic light flashed behind the grotesque mask of amiability.
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That the situation could have been allowed to reach such a point in Brazil, the country of "amiability" and "non-violence in politics" should prompt any leaders not yet entirely blinded by the "battle against subversion" to try to save their country's reputation.
Torture in Brazil
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His orbs were scintillant with reflected luminosity, while his submaxillary dermal indentations gave every evidence of engaging amiability.
Vampishone Diary Entry
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He couldn't tolerate this imposed amiability.
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Do we really want to attend to the amiability of the discussion about whether or not we start start paddling, or do we start friggin 'paddling?
PSRC Plan Avoids Climate Reality « PubliCola
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But he went on going to see them, as though he did not notice their unamiability.
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
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The rage of Cuttikins at this interruption was considerable; he looked at me as if he could have eaten me raw, and remarked with a concentrated spleen, 'Well, I must say, never did I see any human being so improved in amiability as you are.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Modern tourism enters into social life in the form of equality and amiability.
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I hate all that false amiability that goes on at parties.
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He opened his eyes and leaned toward Clarence, whose face had lost all trace of amiability and equanimity.
DANSVILLE
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There was a general feeling of amiability and sisterhood.
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Nattie, having been quarreling all day with intangible somethings, was rather glad than otherwise to find a real object upon which she could vent the unamiability resulting from her surplus discontent.
Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes
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His amiability condemns him to being a constant listener to other people's troubles.
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One of the most noticeable things about Hockney is his pleasing smile. It is lopsided, wry, infectious; it makes him seem permanently amused at the world, at himself; and it gives him an air of naive amiability.
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_Glum_ is hardly the word, my dear; it conveys the impression of unamiability.
Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
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I ventured feebly to say that I did not see how progress could be made in any art of science, or indeed in anything at all, without more or less self-seeking, and hence unamiability.
Erewhon; or, Over the range
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His military expertise and amiability helped to keep the crusading army together.
