What's the difference between friendless and friendly?

Friendless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of friends; forsaken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The death toll was worst in old peoples' homes and (less surprisingly) in stifling cities where the old, friendless and abandoned succumbed to the heat in anonymous apartments.
  • (2) But, to be fair, Sally was jolly, plus she was friendless because of the house move of a previous best friend.
  • (3) What has not been widely recognized apparently is the all too common consequence of the personal jeopardy that the forensic pathologist is placed in--defenseless, friendless, disgraced, and left with a severely tarnished professional reputation.
  • (4) It only ended after multiple appearances before courts and varying lengths of imprisonment when he died, aged 30, homeless and friendless six days after his last release.
  • (5) The prototypical and subdued reaction (seen in 64% of the children) consisted of mild sadness, anxiety, feeling of friendlessness, and social withdrawal.
  • (6) He was friendless and barely able to function: "I'd never used a telephone until 1996."
  • (7) Once in Britain he was homeless and friendless, and at one point was forced to sleep rough in Trafalgar Square.
  • (8) Comparisons were made between alcoholics and nonalcoholics in a sample of Danish adoptees (mean age 30) and it was found that the alcoholics, as children, were more often hyperactive, truant, antisocial, shy, aggressive, disobedient, and friendless.
  • (9) But there are already dozens of large and small organisations addressing the issue in subtly different ways: not just those already mentioned, but also the Friends of Friendless Churches, the Historic Chapels Trust and so on.
  • (10) The proportions of friendless men desiring either friends of casual acquaintances were not related to either age or length of residence.
  • (11) I want his brother to see that, even in here, he isn’t friendless.
  • (12) It has the support of leading economists like Ken Henry, Ross Garnaut and Bernie Fraser whilst Tony Abbott’s phoney alternative is friendless,” the greens leader said.
  • (13) For this to all end happily we need new buyers of the mountain of debt that is step by step becoming friendless in the deleveraging trade.
  • (14) Du Pont struck him as “like Richie Rich [the fictional, friendless millionaire child played by Macaulay Culkin in the eponymous movie] all grown up”.
  • (15) It's July and everything else nasty from the May economic statement appears friendless.
  • (16) But he'll leave eventually, leaving you heartbroken and friendless."
  • (17) Many patients live in an emotionally impoverished state, friendless and rarely leaving the hospital.
  • (18) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian As a young girl, she felt an outsider – brown, Muslim, shy, friendless.
  • (19) Kiberlain, who won acclaim for her portrayal of Simone de Beauvoir and a César – the French equivalent of an Oscar – for her, at times hilarious, interpretation of the workaholic, friendless judge in 9 Mois Ferme , said: "Personally, I feel I've been very lucky.
  • (20) Obesity, anti-social behaviour, friendlessness and fear are the known consequences,” they say.

Friendly


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.
  • (a.) Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.
  • (a.) Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.
  • (a.) Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.
  • (adv.) In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
  • (2) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
  • (3) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
  • (4) Furthermore, in induced Friend cells 100 microM Fe-SIH stimulated 2-14C-glycine incorporation into heme up to 3.6-fold as compared to the incorporation observed with saturating concentrations of Fe-Tf.
  • (5) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
  • (6) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (7) The video, which Kester said was taken by a friend of Savannah’s who came to support her, was circulated online this month and featured in a Mormon LGBTQ podcast.
  • (8) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.
  • (9) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
  • (10) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
  • (11) I didn’t come here to play games – I wrote to all my friends and family because I might not see them again,” he told Al-Aan.
  • (12) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
  • (13) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
  • (14) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
  • (15) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
  • (16) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
  • (17) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
  • (18) Fleeting though it may have been (he jetted off to New York this morning and is due in Toronto on Saturday), there was a poignant reason for his appearance: he was here to play a tribute set to Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of house and one of Morales's closest friends, who died suddenly in March.
  • (19) The person responsible for pulling the trigger was equally likely to be a friend, a family member, or the victim.
  • (20) Alec played a role in the resignation of the UK defence secretary Liam Fox last year over his close ties to his friend Adam Werritty.

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