Both Uses of
genial
in
Ethan Frome
- Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy.†
Chpt 4 *
- The builder refused genially, as he did everything else: he treated the matter as something in the nature of a practical joke, and wanted to know if Ethan meditated buying a grand piano or adding a "cupolo" to his house; offering, in the latter case, to give his services free of cost.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(genial as in: a genial personality) friendly and good-natured