affable
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"Affable", "warm", and a close ally says he's a "really nice person – politics is a contact sport and it's not contrived".
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026
Affable and unassuming, Mr. Mirisch never fit the cliché of the imperious, dictatorial Hollywood producer.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2023
Affable and emotional, Towns has been known to speak in hyperbole like this.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2022
Affable and a noted gourmand, Mr. Epstein struck up friendships with generations of writers, including Wilson, who had been a prominent literary critic since the 1920s.
From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022
Affable, placid Alicia whiled away her days in bed, playing with dolls in tents constructed from Mami’s sheets.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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