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Definition
friendly and good-natured
- The geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling.p. 13.3
- I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.p. 90.8
There are no more uses of "genial" in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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