Sample Sentences for
genial
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genial as in:  a genial personality

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    "I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year," said Tom genially.  (source)
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    ...the genial host again.  (source)
    genial = friendly and good-natured
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    She smiled and smiled, largely because she was naturally genial and on her good behavior here, but incidentally because Clyde was who he was.  (source)
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    Up here, the genial Benjen Stark he had known became a different person.†  (source)
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    In the first act the author genially outlines the history of the town,  (source)
    genially = in a friendly, good-natured manner
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    Joe sensed a mild geniality in her and it made him feel good.†  (source)
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    —I did not quite like your looks on Tuesday, but it was an ungenial morning; and though you will never own being affected by weather, I think every body feels a north-east wind.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in ungenial means not and reverses the meaning of genial. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    A semiretired man, genial but wary, killing time.†  (source)
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    He smiled genially.  (source)
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    Perhaps because of this reduction in rank, perhaps for other reasons, his reputation among persons Phaedrus talked to wasn't one of geniality.†  (source)
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    —Your keeper is ever a jovial fellow; and none who beheld thy grinders contending with these pease, and thy throat flooded with this ungenial element, could see thee doomed to such horse-provender and horse-beverage," (pointing to the provisions upon the table,) "and refrain from mending thy cheer.†  (source)
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    But Attean seemed impatient; his genial mood of the night before had vanished.†  (source)
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    It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible.†  (source)
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