Example Sentences

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When I’m feeling sociable, I take on his personality — a backslapper, a schmoozer, a happy-go-lucky guy.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022

Mr. King recalled her as thoughtful and friendly but not an overly familiar backslapper.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2021

Associates described him as a bespectacled chain smoker, reserved, not a backslapper.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2018

He’s a great backslapper, ever cordial, good at remembering names, never missing an opportunity to tell voters how much he loves them and only lives to serve them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2016

A former speaker of the Knesset—like Netanyahu, he is a member of the Likud—he was a clubhouse pol, a backslapper, a vote trader.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014