Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an affable manner; courteously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an affable manner; courteously.
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- adverb in an
affable manner
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- adverb in an affable manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hope yo're nicely, Miss, "affably;" an 'th' same to yo ', Parson.
That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Hope yo're nicely, miss, "affably;" an 'th' same to yo ', parson.
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Making his television debut last night, Kilstein offered up five and a half minutes of the kind of rapid-fire, incisive and affably angry comedy that has earned him fans in fellow comics like Janeane Garafalo, Robin Williams and Paul Provenza who included Kilstein in his bookSatiristas: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs & Vulgarians.
WATCH: Did Slutty Girls With iPods Really Cause 9/11? The Huffington Post 2011
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The attendant pointed out the owner, early 50s with light skin and a round face in a white business shirt with blue crosshatching, talking affably with other men on the street.
Adam Valen Levinson: Finding The Persian Gulf's Only Synagogue Adam Valen Levinson 2011
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Of course, like most Skulduggery Pleasant villains, he was affably evil anyway.
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Making his television debut last night, Kilstein offered up five and a half minutes of the kind of rapid-fire, incisive and affably angry comedy that has earned him fans in fellow comics like Janeane Garafalo, Robin Williams and Paul Provenza who included Kilstein in his bookSatiristas: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs & Vulgarians.
WATCH: Did Slutty Girls With iPods Really Cause 9/11? The Huffington Post 2011
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The attendant pointed out the owner, early 50s with light skin and a round face in a white business shirt with blue crosshatching, talking affably with other men on the street.
Adam Valen Levinson: Finding The Persian Gulf's Only Synagogue Adam Valen Levinson 2011
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The attendant pointed out the owner, early 50s with light skin and a round face in a white business shirt with blue crosshatching, talking affably with other men on the street.
Adam Valen Levinson: Finding The Persian Gulf's Only Synagogue Adam Valen Levinson 2011
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Ryan travels to offices he has never set foot in and affably fires people he'll never see again.
Timely 'Up in the Air' rises to challenge with humor, heart 2009
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She earnestly, affably discusses her self-perception and how, despite a life begun at 12 in film and music, she doesn't consider herself an artist, and how this may actually be reassuring, affording her a healthy distance form the trappings of compulsory creation of Art.
Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012
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