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She seemed an ideal candidate--attractive, amiable, intelligent, and energetic.amiable = friendly and likable
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It was an amiable gathering of old friends.amiable = friendly
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I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. (source)amiable = friendly, agreeable, and likable
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You will be together, you will appear amiable to each other. (source)
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I actually liked it when Khanum Taheri was there, and not just because of her amiable ways; Soraya was more relaxed, more talkative with her mother around. (source)
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Kalo waved amiably; then he turned the attack dogs loose. (source)amiably = in a friendly way
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He waited in amiable silence, and I sought to reinforce my position: (source)amiable = agreeable or friendly
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"Perhaps someone can push you along in a wheelchair," the girl said amiably. (source)amiably = in a friendly way
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Then he speaks slowly and with false amiability. (source)amiability = friendliness
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He remembered, moreover, that he was in the house of a Jew, a people who, besides the other unamiable qualities which popular report ascribed to them, were supposed to be profound necromancers and cabalists.† (source)unamiable = not friendly or agreeablestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unamiable means not and reverses the meaning of amiable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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He seemed to have a preoccupied air that somehow did not fit the amiableness of his face.† (source)amiableness = friendliness and agreeablenessstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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To his former pretexts for irony a fresh one was now added—allusions to stepmothers and amiabilities to Mademoiselle Bourienne.† (source)amiabilities = qualities of friendliness or agreeableness
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Occasionally one of the tour guides or teachers would notice him standing there, unfamiliar even if amiable, and he would be met with a questioning stare. (source)amiable = friendly, agreeable, and likable
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The king was still smiling amiably, like he'd just delivered great news. (source)amiably = in a friendly way
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I watched my master's face pass from amiability to sternness; (source)amiability = the quality of being friendly and agreeable
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But she did not want to appear unamiable and uninterested, so she had brought forth newspapers, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and under Madame Ratignolle's directions she had cut a pattern of the impervious garment.† (source)unamiable = not friendly or agreeable
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