Sample Sentences forconvivial (editor-reviewed)
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They have convivial gatherings the second Tuesday of each month.convivial = friendly and fun
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She thinks conviviality is a major cause of overeating.conviviality = being friendly and fun
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At fifty he was healthy, convivial, and calm, and he was pleased to pass the evenings drinking whisky with friends, always sensibly and for the sake of conversation. (source)convivial = fond of the pleasures of good company
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When the "Jazz History of the World." was over, girls were putting their heads on men's shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, (source)convivial = friendly and fun
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It had been a feeling she'd been after, a convivial solidarity; (source)
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I've seen flashes of this August before—this brightness, this conviviality, this generosity of spirit—but I know what he's capable of, and I won't forget it. (source)conviviality = friendly cheerfulness
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The living arrangements were loose and convivial.† (source)
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They hailed Ethan with ironic compliment and offers of conviviality; (source)conviviality = a friendly, festive atmosphere
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He was the worst Musketeer and the most unconvivial companion imaginable.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconvivial means not and reverses the meaning of convivial. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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'It might even get me into The Saturday Evening Post,' Colonel Cathcart boasted in his office with a smile, swaggering back and forth convivially as he reproached the chaplain.† (source)
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Mrs. Williams's answer was drowned out by the convivial hubbub around her.† (source)
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After anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour of conviviality (in which the pups took part, getting under everyone's feet and nipping promiscuously at any adult tail they might encounter) the three adults would adjourn to the crest of the den, usually led by Angeline.† (source)
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But the intimacy, the smallness, also made me feel shut out; and I found myself hurrying past the inviting little doorways with my head down, very aware of all the convivial Sunday-morning lives unrolling around me in private.† (source)
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And though in near time we did sleep together (with a genuinely pleasing, if sober, conviviality), I came to think of that first interlude with a somewhat sorrowful fondness, for I saw that our days together were perhaps sullied from the very beginning and all the way through, right up to the last.† (source)
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I led Dr Meredith downstairs, showed him into the billiard room, then returned quickly to the smoking room where the atmosphere, if anything, had grown even more convivial.† (source)
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The defeated knights, jogging home with their bruises, missed the conviviality which usually happened on tournament evenings, wondered who the taciturn champion could be, and talked superstitiously among themselves.† (source)
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