Definitions
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- adjective
Comfortable ,cozy ,snug ,pleasant . - adjective
Friendly ,genial ,cheerful ,easy-going .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It used to be a German neighborhood full of gemutlich food shops and restaurants.
Trying to Love 86th Street Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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It used to be a German neighborhood full of gemutlich food shops and restaurants.
Trying to Love 86th Street Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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"What happened," he said, "is that the gemutlich stores were replaced by gemutlich Burger King and gemutlich Kentucky Fried Chicken."
Trying to Love 86th Street Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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"What happened," he said, "is that the gemutlich stores were replaced by gemutlich Burger King and gemutlich Kentucky Fried Chicken."
Trying to Love 86th Street Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Its bar area is cozy and gemutlich, and there's finally a place to gather with neighbors that's neither trendy nor overpriced nor filled with crazy drag queens like Marlena's down the street.
Return of The Blue Muse sfmike 2008
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Its bar area is cozy and gemutlich, and there's finally a place to gather with neighbors that's neither trendy nor overpriced nor filled with crazy drag queens like Marlena's down the street.
Archive 2008-03-01 sfmike 2008
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This insistence on looking into the void goes in a strange way hand in hand with the gemutlich Schubert of the Trout Quintet and the Arpeggione Sonata.
The ultimate consoling music Jessica 2005
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Everybody is at least plump in this comfortable, gemutlich town, where everybody placidly locks his shop or office and goes home at noon to dine heavily on soup and meat and vegetables and pudding, washed down by the inevitable beer and followed by forty winks on the dining room sofa with the German Zeitung spread comfortably over the head as protection against the flies.
Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926
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I had my own Black Swan moment when I got here at 11.00 and found that the hotel where I've stayed for 12 years - a family-owned inn, on the edge of town, not that convenient but wonderfully gemutlich in a Schweizdeutsch way - was under new management.
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It is a glorious day, sun is shining, though a keen wind does take the edge off the warmth, but really just so good to sit here looking out the window and posting and all is relaxed and gemutlich.
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