All 8 Uses of
amiable
in
Babbitt
- He was fairly amiable in the conference on the brown suit.†
Chpt 1
- Babbitt sought for amiable insults in answer.†
Chpt 5
- By the time the guests had come, including the inevitable late couple for whom the others waited with painful amiability, a great gray emptiness had replaced the purple swirling in Babbitt's head, and he had to force the tumultuous greetings suitable to a host on Floral Heights.†
Chpt 8
- "Well, then, my dear, since you ask for it—There hasn't been a time in the last ten years when I haven't found some nice little girl to comfort me, and as long as you continue your amiability I shall probably continue to deceive you.†
Chpt 10
- Before they went, three of them secretly made appointments with the professional dancing girl, who agreed "Yes, yes, sure, darling" to everything they said, and amiably forgot them.†
Chpt 13
- At the drab wooden house in which she lived he said good-night briefly and amiably, but as the taxicab drove off he was praying "Oh, my God!"†
Chpt 24
- To Mrs. Babbitt the doctor said with amiable belligerence, after his examination, "Kind of a bad old pain, eh?†
Chpt 33
- As they passed down the hall Gunch demanded amiably, "George, old scout, you were soreheaded about something, here a while back."
Chpt 33 *amiably = in a friendly way
Definition:
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(amiable) friendly, agreeable, and likable