Friendliness

Definitions

The quality of being friendly.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Finding us easy in our ways, he […] told me a cock-and-bull story with the moral of another five francs for the narrator. The thing was palpably absurd; but I paid up, and at once dropped all friendliness of manner, and kept him in his place⟳ as an inferior with freezing British dignity. He saw⟳ in a moment that he had gone too far, and killed a willing horse; his face⟳ fell; I am sure he would have⟳ refunded if he could only have⟳ thought of a decent pretext.”

“To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find⟳ that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry⟳ with it any permanence of devotion.”

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