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The humor, at once simple and clever, innocent and off-color, amiably wants to get a rise, and Horn isn’t too proud to go low in his genial wordplay.

A more genial invisible presence, he is also a good deal more gentle than the Austrian Nobel Prize winner.

The genial, dapper TV host with the gleaming smile and perfectly coiffed hair had hosted two local TV game shows in L.A. before going national with “What’s This Song?”

Hackman enters with a genial familiarity only to make it very clear that the Klan will underestimate him at its peril.

The genial tone devolved into acrimony and chaos.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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