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Definition
good natured and sociable
- The countess looked at her callers, smiling affably, but not concealing the fact that she would not be distressed if they now rose and took their leave.Book One — 1805 (33% in)
- Alexander was saying something affable to him.Book Five — 1806-07 (95% in)
- But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers—but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty-handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles.Book Eleven — 1812 (50% in)
- The governor was a brisk little man, very simple and affable.Book Twelve — 1812 (18% in)
There are no more uses of "affable" in War and Peace.
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