(n.) The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior.
Example Sentences:
(1) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(2) He is affable but hyperactive, or maybe he has consumed too much white powder.
(3) As a businessman I had an obligation.” He also contrasted his alleged affability with Clinton’s remark during the first Democratic debate that she viewed Republicans as “an enemy”.
(4) When he appeared on Desert Island Discs, for example, Kirsty Young expressed surprise that he was so affable and giving, wondering aloud why she might have thought otherwise.
(5) Musk has a reputation for being prickly but when I meet him at SpaceX , his headquarters west of Los Angeles, he is affable and chatty, cheerfully expounding on space exploration, climate change, Richard Branson and Hollywood.
(6) His decisiveness and affability were valuable assets, but much more than this, he was one of the few who sought both to understand and to explain what was happening.
(7) It turns up at quarter to ten, deposited by an affable chap in a uniform.
(8) Lucky Richard was assigned to Poke ’s most affable hosts, the restaurant critic Tracey MacLeod and her colleague, the rapper LL Cool J , who plied him with fudge and polystyrene all day, while I was understandably ignored by my master, a capable young comic newspaper columnist called Michael Andrew Gove.
(9) Talha Asmal, 17, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire , who reportedly detonated a vehicle fitted with explosives while fighting for the militant group in Iraq, was described as “a loving, kind, caring and affable teenager” by his devastated family.
(10) Speaking after the event, which was not open to journalists, the shareholder described Grade as "affable", but questioned whether he had delivered for investors.
(11) But in the meantime, they can continue to muddle along as they are: affable, a bit posh and fine with it.
(12) It's all the fault of that blasted weather, of course, but the affable Stan Wawrinka isn't happy, the Swiss taking aim at the tournament organisers for messing up his schedule, making him play a possible five matches in seven days and potentially wrecking his hopes of adding to the Australian Open he won in January.
(13) He was bright, intrepid, determined and full of character ... A very talented footballer and magnificent marine he had a lot to be proud of, yet I knew him to be an affable, generous, loyal and modest young man."
(14) Rwanda has a flourishing economy and well-oiled PR machine, and the affable Kagame uses that most democratic of media, Twitter .
(15) Some people have encountered an affable man with a beard and a hat.
(16) Boehner was referring to a Wall Street Journal report quoting an unnamed "senior administration official" as saying: “We are winning…It doesn’t really matter to us” how long the shutdown lasts “because what matters is the end result.” Boehner says he's known for his affable demeanor and fair-mindedness.
(17) By contrast it was the outwardly affable Harold Macmillan who pulled off a gruesome "night of the long knives", ditching a third of his cabinet overnight in an exercise named after Hitler's rather bloodier dispatching of his own lieutenants in the SA.
(18) Its affable 79-year-old owner, Salome Gutiérrez, has extended Del Bravo to include a Tejas y su Musica (The Texas Music Museum) honouring Lydia and other local artists.
(19) If Obama can get his proposals through Congress, the affable economist will have a lasting memorial in the Volcker Rule.
(20) He described O'Brien as a "very affable, warm and hospitable" man who was always unafraid to speak his mind.
Friendliness
Definition:
(n.) The condition or quality of being friendly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everywhere I was treated with friendliness and kindness by service users, usually depicted as "low life" and "inadequates".
(2) A multivariate discriminate analysis of 13 variables on 91 healthy and 63 nervous dogs assayed at 3 months of age shows: (1) that much of our present behavioral testing procedures is redundant, and (2) that simple "friendliness to humans" in the dog is as effective for discriminating between the two groups as any of the 13 measures, taken either singly or collectively.
(3) Skipton's high street is a past winner of the Academy of Urbanism's ( academyofurbanism.org.uk) award for the greatest street in the land judged on criteria including user friendliness, local character and distinctiveness, environmental and social sustainability and commercial success and viability.
(4) The firmness of a handshake carries meaning as clearly as words, in the same way that a smile radiates confidence and friendliness.
(5) Its people ask very little but offer all they have - hospitality, warmth, friendliness and willingness to help.
(6) Most designations of bike-friendliness have gone not to proper cities but college towns: Davis, Boulder, Long Beach, Iowa City – places that, while pleasant enough, command little national, let alone international import.
(7) Attention is paid to the anti-decubitus quality, the users-friendliness for medical attendants, nursing attendants and the patient himself, the maintenance-friendliness and the cost-price.
(8) If you add the inauguration pivot to the president's other recent contacts with the business world, you get something that looks almost like friendliness.
(9) Significant improvements in the accessibility, operation and user-friendliness of the program have been made, facilitated by recent advances in microcomputer technology.
(10) The IMAGE image analysis language guarantees user friendliness, and, last but not least, the enormous amount of software offers accurate, reproducible measurements and dedicated evaluation programs.
(11) ", the mock friendliness sounding especially hollow.
(12) Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness .
(13) A multicenter field trial is currently gathering data that will allow researchers to compare the performance characteristics of each set of criteria, including dimensions such as classification rates, reliability, and user-friendliness.
(14) It is argued that it is not helpful to view evaluation as a method for achieving user-friendliness, rather it should be seen as a participating activity within design and development.
(15) The "user-friendliness" and efficacy of this percutaneous filter makes it a treatment of choice in the partial interruption of the inferior vena cava.
(16) Given my tendency to wear women’s clothes, while looking like a man, I expect I could have got beaten up easily.” Six UK universities get top marks for gay-friendliness Read more However, Grainger says that universities can only do so much to support students.
(17) If the climate friendliness of the third runway depends on huge, politically unimaginable tax rises on flights by the UK government and an end to international buck passing, what is to be done?
(18) Thoughtfulness and Personal Relations showed cultural declines during the time period studied, whereas Friendliness showed a long-term cultural decline.
(19) Ghana was selected because of its friendliness, enthusiasm for the project, and helpful co-operation given in initial planning.
(20) Hostility decreased and friendliness increased in depressives after amitriptyline; upon recovery, there were no significant differences in hostility between depressed patients and control subjects, whereas such differences were striking during the illness.