All 21 Uses of
amiable
in
Little Dorrit
- He was, at that time, a very amiable and very helpless middle-aged gentleman, who was going out again directly.†
Chpt 1.6
- The Father of the Marshalsea condescended towards his brother as an amiable, well-meaning man; a private character, who had not arrived at distinction.†
Chpt 1.8
- The landlady's lively speech was received with greater favour at the Break of Day, than it would have elicited from certain amiable whitewashers of the class she so unreasonably objected to, nearer Great Britain.†
Chpt 1.11
- Of articles collected on his various expeditions, there was such a vast miscellany that it was like the dwelling of an amiable Corsair.†
Chpt 1.16
- She was so beautiful, so amiable, so apt to receive any true impression given to her gentle nature and her innocent heart, and make the man who should be so happy as to communicate it, the most fortunate and enviable of all men, that he was very glad indeed he had come to that conclusion.†
Chpt 1.16
- Pet had taken the most amiable pains all day to be friendly with Clennam, but Clennam had been a little reserved since breakfast—that is to say, would have been, if he had loved her.†
Chpt 1.17
- The Father of the Marshalsea always lifted up his eyebrows at this point, and became amiably distraught and smilingly absent in mind.†
Chpt 1.18
- The Father of the Marshalsea showed the amiable solicitude of a superior being that he should come to no harm.†
Chpt 1.19
- The advance from a personal acquaintance with the elder Mr Chivery to an introduction to his amiable wife and disconsolate son, may have been easy; but easy or not, Mr Pancks soon made it.†
Chpt 1.25
- The host called all the universe to witness that Monseigneur was the most amiable of the whole body of nobility, the most important, the most estimable, the most honoured.†
Chpt 2.3
- 'Indeed?' returned Fanny, with an appearance of amiably quenching her own superiority.†
Chpt 2.6
- 'No, no, don't say that,' urged Mr Meagles, 'because that's not responding amiably.†
Chpt 2.8
- She had what they called an amiable temper, an affectionate temper.†
Chpt 2.21
- Amiable and dear little Twoshoes!†
Chpt 2.24
- Mr Plornish amiably growled, in his philosophical but not lucid manner, that there was ups you see, and there was downs.†
Chpt 2.27
- Now under these circumstances, and considering that none of us can quite set ourselves above public opinion, wouldn't a trifling concession to that opinion be—Come, sir,' said Rugg, 'I will put it on the lowest ground of argument, and say, amiable?'†
Chpt 2.28
- It amused me, it worried your dear mama and my Flintwinch, it caused you agonies (my terms for a lesson in politeness towards a gentleman), and it suggested to all the amiable persons interested that your entirely devoted is a man to fear.†
Chpt 2.28
- I am playful; playfulness is a part of my amiable character.
Chpt 2.30 *amiable = friendly
- I have known many adventurers; interesting spirits—amiable society!†
Chpt 2.30
- Rigaud Lagnier Blandois, my amiable subject, you will get your money.†
Chpt 2.30
- I am going,' said the Patriarch, finishing his mixture, and rising with an amiable air, 'to take a little stroll, a little stroll.†
Chpt 2.32
Definition:
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(amiable) friendly, agreeable, and likable