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cordial
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cordial as in:  a cordial reception

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    "Hello," he said, cordially, to Ginnie.  (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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    "How do you do, Marilla?" she said cordially.  (source)
    cordially = in a friendly way
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    Mrs. Braddocks insisted cordially.  (source)
    cordially = in a friendly way
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    The advice of poets is the cordiality of kings!†  (source)
    cordiality = friendliness
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    They've been awfully cordial to me.  (source)
    cordial = friendly
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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)
    uncordial = not friendly
    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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    Crimson suede sofas sat cordially next to the stained upholstery love seat my father had dragged in from the dump many years before.†  (source)
    cordially = in a friendly way
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    But he stood up and shook my hand with genuine cordiality when we came in.†  (source)
    cordiality = friendliness
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    I was never given a more cordial hearing anywhere.  (source)
    cordial = friendly
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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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    "Matter of some furniture," he said cordially.†  (source)
    cordially = in a friendly way
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rare meaning

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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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    Sweet cordials and heavy ales were consumed in copious amounts, adding to the boisterous atmosphere.†  (source)
    cordials = a type of drink
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    Cordials.†  (source)
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    Mama was cordial and attentive to everyone, as if entertaining them gave her a purpose.†  (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)
    cordials = a type of drink
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    The bartender emptied the bottle into a cordial glass.†  (source)
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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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    Jon Arryn and he had been cordial, but never friendly.†  (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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    We'll try to keep it cordial, although of course we started off on the wrong foot.†  (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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    The soldiers, really not much older than I, were cordial, even friendly.†  (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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