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bonhomie

[ UK /bˈɒnəmˌiː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

How To Use bonhomie In A Sentence

  • He did his best under difficult circumstances, but remained a tense, suspicious figure whose occasional attempts at cheery bonhomie always struck a false note with us.
  • Now he is all smiles and bonhomie. Times, Sunday Times
  • The two friends share a joke and their bonhomie is touching.
  • He nodded farewell, embracing in his bonhomie the waiting foremen, some of whom might themselves be site managers next year. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • Sa bonhomie en faisait un compagnon agréable, malgré le fond de mélancolie neurasthénique que palliait la gaieté de son rire. Tante Marie-Francoise
  • The smile and bonhomie are increasingly unconvincing, the fury barely suppressed. Times, Sunday Times
  • So the good natured banter and dressing room style bonhomie had been shattered by a traitor in our midst.
  • She is what you would call a boisterous child, overflowing with ebullition of spirits, _joie de vivre_, bonhomie, and all those attributes which cause people possessing them to make a noise. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel
  • We were also too good at maintaining the usual façade of cheerful bonhomie, on the occasions where we did see them.
  • Many have laboured, lost their footing and fallen in a bid to dramatise Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, a herculean tale of thwarted love, haunted hearts and man's capacity for bonhomie and inhumanity during the first world war. Grace Dent: Birdsong
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