geniality
Example Sentences
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A scruffy-faced Radcliffe, twinkling accessible geniality in jeans and a sweatshirt, zips up and down the cavernous theater as though waging a one-man campaign against the isolation epidemic.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
Mostly they are dignified snapshots of him shaking hands with dignitaries and voters, offering up that big, gleaming expression of geniality that was his signature, walking across a tarmac or delivering a speech.
From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2023
RADNOR, Pa. — This affluent 340-year-old township of 31,000 residents on the Main Line has long been a bastion of gentility and geniality.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021
With his pug nose, jutting jaw and penchant for slang--colleagues were "chaps" and a bad theory was a "bust flush"--he exuded a kind of blue-collar integrity and geniality.
From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2020
All the assurance and geniality had gone out of his manner.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.