What's the difference between clubbable and sociable?
Clubbable
Definition:
(a.) Suitable for membership in a club; sociable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Is he clubbable with guests Tom Hanks and Mila Kunis?
(2) Men have been doing this for each other since time began – the clubbable aspect of the old boys' network.
(3) Unlike Phillips, whose shyness sometimes makes him appear remote, Neuberger is a clubbable, affable man who hides a razor-sharp intellect behind an easy-going manner.
(4) After all, Young continues, the leading Conservative has been criticised by parliamentary colleagues in the past for not being sufficiently clubbable.
(5) David Cameron is a first-class leader of the party and a first-class prime minister and I hope he’s going to be doing that for a very long time.” However, she was also clear that whatever she decided to do, May would not make herself any more “clubbable” nor join the old boys’ network to get there.
(6) She is admired in her party for being smart, sensible and no-nonsense, and any suggestion that she isn't "clubbable" can be attributed to the underlying sexism of a place where ministers who prefer putting the kids to bed rather than drinking with colleagues are deemed a bit odd.
(7) Reedie himself has come in for fierce criticism from some, seen as too clubbable and too conflicted given his companion role as an IOC vice-president.
(8) Not everybody gets invited on Desert Island Discs .” And when it comes to clubbability and hanging around in Westminster bars, she is forthright: “It is not me.” The first of her chosen eight discs is the Four Seasons’ hit Walk Like a Man, and yet, although May loves the song, she argues it is important to her that she is allowed to do her job as herself.
(9) Druidism can be seen as another quasi-Masonic phenomenon, and druids of this ilk are on a par with any other odd fellows, their aim being clubbable mutual assistance rather than mystical transcendence.
(10) Recent histories of the period have emphasised the intellectual liveliness and clubbable characters of the "English Enlightenment", but here there's a sense of Augustan severity.
(11) The story of how the Premier League came into being is one of determination and deceit, of clubbable bureaucracy coming face to face with free-wheeling entrepreneurialism.
(12) More clubbable – her karaoke number was Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 – she has gained a reputation as a May loyalist who can be volatile with colleagues.
(13) In keeping with her apparent lack of clubbability, her supporters – "Mayniacs", some people call them – do not seem to form any clearly identifiable faction.
(14) It turns out that he is a shortish, respectably groomed figure, sporting a clubbable red and blue tie for his congressional appearance.
(15) Hemming, who was first elected as MP for Birmingham Yardley at the 2005 general election, is not a clubbable figure at Westminster.
(16) But he's a great guy, very clubbable and amiable, who can take a joke and keep things in perspective."
(17) When they made their debut in A Clubbable Woman in 1970, Dalziel and Pascoe were indeed an ambivalent pair, just as likely to bully and persecute a suspect as ride to the rescue of a victim.
(18) None of them are as obviously clubbable as Nige and he may want shot of them after the election.
Sociable
Definition:
(n.) A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.
(n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(2) The sociable friendly infants received higher scores on both cognitive tests than the less sociable babies did.
(3) Emotionality, activity, sociability and impulsivity (EASI) and components of each trait were studied in a sample of 137 pairs of young twins (two to six years of age) and their parents (548 individuals).
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(5) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
(6) If you’re not sociable you don’t last long,” says Alex, “but if you can get along with people you make friends for life almost immediately, from all over the world.” She isn’t alone.
(7) Manifest in the preschool years, autism always affects sociability, communication, and the child's repertoire of activities and interests.
(8) The multiple motive hypothesis of physical attractiveness suggests that women are attracted to men whose appearances elicit their nurturant feelings, who appear to possess sexual maturity and dominance characteristics, who seem sociable, approacheable, and of high social status.
(9) Tests set up with isolated mice of two groups (aggressive and "fearful") evidenced that diazepam and medazepam weaken the behavioral manifestations of the partner's avoidance, increase sociability in "fearful" mice and help to regain the ability for elementary intraspecies contacts.
(10) The results have shown the improvement not only in movement possibilities of the patients, but also the improvement in majority of the psychological parameters (IQ, emotionality, sociability scale etc.
(11) I can understand why this blurring of boundaries has happened: TV is a very informal, sociable industry.
(12) She's sociable, she loves children - we've got four.
(13) Measures of the home environment were, however, correlated with measures of infant sociability (assessed inside and outside the test situation): sociable infants had sociable mothers.
(14) Their sociability is seen in their attraction to peers, their directing to peers of such distinctively social behaviors as vocalizations, smiles, and gestures, and the predominantly friendly nature of their behavior.
(15) Strong relationships were found between both measures of sociability and both measures of cognitive competence.
(16) Secure classification in the Strange Situation was associated with quality of secure-base behavior at home (i.e., higher Q-sort security scores) and with sociability, but not with dependency scores.
(17) Individual unfolding that depends on the sociable conditions is mainly discussed in two parts of interrogation: What form and idea of aged people does the society have?
(18) He's a very nice chap and very sociable, but I don't think at this stage he's of any use to the newspaper," he confesses.
(19) It also made them feel more alert, steady, sociable, and strong.
(20) ; millions of excess neurons = 8900, 8650, 8550; IQ = 107, 100, 85); maturational delay (age to walk alone, age of first intercourse, age of death); sexual restraint (ovulation rate, intercourse frequencies, sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS); quiescent temperament (aggressiveness, anxiety, sociability); and social organization (law abidingness, marital stability, mental health).