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Meaning of Friendliness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
ˈfɹɛndlinəs

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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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