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affability

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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He is a shrewd, Napoleonic, short man, who is very affable, but as poisonous as hell with his affability. Erhard Milch

Kings, like children, tend to be opportunistic. Generosity only spoils them. They equate affability with weakness and hasten to exploit it. Jack Vance

In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints. [...]. Washington Irving

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls. Arthur Conan Doyle

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us. Charles Baxter

He conciliated the people by his affability, brought in Englishmen to teach various handicrafts and tried to help the farmers by improving the breed of Manx horses, and, at the same time, he restricted the exactions of the Church. Source: Internet

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