Sample Sentences for
cordial
(editor-reviewed)

cordial as in:  a cordial reception

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    "How do you do, Marilla?" she said cordially.  (source)
    cordially = in a friendly way
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    The Judge questioned me quite calmly and even, I thought, with a hint of cordiality.  (source)
    cordiality = friendliness
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    They've been awfully cordial to me.  (source)
    cordial = friendly
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    I was never given a more cordial hearing anywhere.  (source)
    cordial = friendly
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    Mary Jane leaned forward cordially.  (source)
    cordially = in a friendly way
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    "So sorry to have wasted your time," he said with mock cordiality.†  (source)
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    There are no cordialities,'and Cedric can't meet Rivera's gaze as he sidesteps through the doorway and sits.†  (source)
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    The same manners, however, which recommended Mrs. John Dashwood to the good opinion of Lady Middleton did not suit the fancy of Mrs. Jennings, and to HER she appeared nothing more than a little proud-looking woman of uncordial address, who met her husband's sisters without any affection, and almost without having anything to say to them; for of the quarter of an hour bestowed on Berkeley Street, she sat at least seven minutes and a half in silence.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncordial means not and reverses the meaning of cordial. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Mama was cordial and attentive to everyone, as if entertaining them gave her a purpose.†  (source)
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    Mrs. Braddocks insisted cordially.  (source)
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    It could be that their cordiality and handshaking had been nothing but stiff formality, that underneath they hated each other.†  (source)
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    An hour later, he's sitting lightly on a red velour cushioned chair across a little round table from Long, getting past cordialities.†  (source)
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    The soldiers, really not much older than I, were cordial, even friendly.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    The tumblerfuls were generous ones and the raspberry cordial was certainly very nice.  (source)
    cordial = a type of sweet, fruit-flavored drink
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    In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.†  (source)
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    Sweet cordials and heavy ales were consumed in copious amounts, adding to the boisterous atmosphere.†  (source)
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    She jumped up hurriedly and said suppose they go in and have some raspberry cordial.  (source)
    cordial = a type of sweet, fruit-flavored drink
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    Cordials.†  (source)
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    "That's awfully nice raspberry cordial, Anne," she said.  (source)
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    We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.†  (source)
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    I didn't know raspberry cordial was so nice.  (source)
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    But I apprehend that we were personally fortunate in engaging a servant with a taste for cordials, who swelled our running account for porter at the public-house by such inexplicable items as 'quartern rum shrub (Mrs. C.)'; 'Half-quartern gin and cloves (Mrs. C.)'; 'Glass rum and peppermint (Mrs. C.)' — the parentheses always referring to Dora, who was supposed, it appeared on explanation, to have imbibed the whole of these refreshments.†  (source)
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    "Not a thing but raspberry cordial," sobbed Anne.  (source)
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    They would not listen to scruples: he was obeyed; they were all beneath his roof; and while Louisa, under Mrs Harville's direction, was conveyed up stairs, and given possession of her own bed, assistance, cordials, restoratives were supplied by her husband to all who needed them.†  (source)
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    You went and gave Diana currant wine instead of raspberry cordial.  (source)
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    You can call it physick all you like, but I think she's brewing up more than cordials in that croft of her'n.†  (source)
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