All 6 Uses of
amiable
in
Washington Square
- Mrs. Sloper was amiable, graceful, accomplished, elegant, and in 1820 she had been one of the pretty girls of the small but promising capital which clustered about the Battery and overlooked the Bay, and of which the uppermost boundary was indicated by the grassy waysides of Canal Street.†
Chpt 1
- Mrs. Penniman was a tall, thin, fair, rather faded woman, with a perfectly amiable disposition, a high standard of gentility, a taste for light literature, and a certain foolish indirectness and obliquity of character.†
Chpt 2
- Mrs. Penniman was truly amiable, but she now gave signs of temper.
Chpt 8 *amiable = friendly, agreeable, and likable
- You are an honest, amiable girl, and an intelligent young man might easily find it out.†
Chpt 11
- It was still less remarkable that she should have felt an extreme curiosity to learn the result of this interview, and that this sentiment, combined with her great amiability and generosity, should have prompted her to regret the sharp words lately exchanged between her niece and herself.†
Chpt 19
- He will be an idle, amiable, selfish, and doubtless tolerably good-natured fellow.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(amiable) friendly, agreeable, and likable