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conversable

[kuhn-vur-suh-buhl] / kənˈvɜr sə bəl /








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Just then, perhaps, Nettie was not a very conversable companion.

From The Doctor's Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

To tea at Mrs. Hazeltine's where met William Allen Butler, author of 'Nothing to Wear'—a bright-eyed, conversable man.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

He was a clever and conversable man, well lettered, a great discourser, and full of a diversity of experience....

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

The Inhabitants are more genteel, more sociable, and in every respect more conversable than in the other Parts of Holland.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

In that sits Satan himself—a well-dressed, conversable, lively, fascinating little man—who never contradicts you, allows that you are always in the right—in fact, seems quite to adopt all your opinions.

From The Sand-Hills of Jutland by Bushby, Mrs. (Anna S.)