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genial

[jeen-yuhl, jee-nee-uhl] / ˈdʒin jəl, ˈdʒi ni əl /


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Genial comic Drew Carey was tapped Monday to replace silver-haired legend Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show “The Price Is Right.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

"Cost of credit was the main detractor, with provisions rising impressively," analysts at Genial Investimentos said in a note.

From Reuters • Jul. 28, 2022

Genial and witty, the thirty-year-old Whitehorn was married to a woman who was part white, part Cheyenne.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017

Two years later, he played the menacing criminal mastermind, "Genial" Harry Grout, in the BBC sitcom Porridge.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2016

Genial, natural, and original, as much as in these latter days it is given to be, he holds a place among our poets like that of Irving among our prose-writers.

From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by Lowell, James Russell




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