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convivial

[kuhn-viv-ee-uhl] / kənˈvɪv i əl /


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The restaurant’s seasonally shifting dishes are served in a convivial dining room with a lively atmosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

To Vasquez’s shock, attendees were instead convivial, even friendly.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2026

There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2026

The atmosphere is convivial but tinged with tension.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 20, 2025

It had been a feeling she’d been after, a convivial solidarity; she’d hoped to murmur to one another, as if sitting at the edge of one of their beds.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen




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