amiable
adjective
having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable.
amiability
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a word derived from
amiable.
Example Sentences
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Looking like a junior professor in his crisp jeans, vest and nerdy-trendy red-framed eyeglasses, Mr. Guimarães has an easygoing amiability that makes his invitations to participate in the show feel like casual outreaches to friends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The verbal dexterity, the charm, the wit, the amiability that the always-a-bridesmaid-never-a-bride kind of woman used to impress and dazzle.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2026
Guillermo Cienfuegos, who directed Rogue Machine’s superb production of “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” leans into the strangeness of “Evanston” without losing sight of the delicate amiability that marks the characters’ twisted behavior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Whatever its shortcomings are minimized by the general amiability of its mission, placing Norman Reedus’ craggy and decidedly atheistic biker inside of a story where the force driving the good guys is spiritual belief.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2024
His amiability to the crab, I feared, was merely a pretense to stop our running.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
