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• He is incalculable when he's drunk. He can turn from an amiable person into a violent horror in a moment.From the entry incalculable
• The smallest commonplace of domestic life, so amiable to the healthy mind, lacerates like a blade.1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry commonplace
• The Sobieski Stuarts were amiable, scholarly men who won converts by their transpicuous innocence.1983, Hugh Trevor Roper, “The Highland Tradition of Scotland”, in Eric Hobsbawm, editor, The Invention of Tradition, page 41. From the entry transpicuous
• So we ambled on, feeling ecstactically how casual, amiable, and goodwilled the world in the market is.1927, The Exile. From the entry goodwilled
• I dare say he has some Italians with him, but our amiable friends are not Italians.1914, G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown, chapter 9. From the entry octoroon
• Her expression was never altogether amiable; was often, indeed, distinctly sullen, or, when she was animated, sarcastic.1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl. From the entry sarcastic
• Cradling a onesied twin in each arm, his button-down shirt the periwinkle blue of his eyes, he looked keenly amiable.2022, Tad Friend, “Borderlands”, in In the Early Times: A Life Reframed, Crown, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry onesied
• For Marguerite, a drug called Keflex had taken all that was amiable out of the old man's friend.2014, Lowell Cauffiel, Forever and Five Days: The Chilling True Story of Love, Betrayal, and Serial Murder in Grand Rapids, Michigan, →ISBN. From the entry old man's friend
• Churchill as First Lord had been a power in the land; Alexander was an amiable and efficient nonentity.2012, Angus Calder, The People's War: Britain 1939-1945, page 88. From the entry power in the land
• For most of us, Dr Wilder Penrose was our amiable Prospero, the psychopomp who steered our darkest dreams towards the daylight.2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 3. From the entry psychopomp
• He has created Barnaby, an amiable little boy who wishes for a fairy godmother and gets a fairy godfather—Mr.1943 October 31, Isabelle Mallet, “Godfather With Wings; BARNABY. By Crockett Johnson. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry fairy godfather
• Stokesey is a most amiable man to do with.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry do with
• The cause is morinoia, habit-mindedness; the type of person is the moron, in three grades, the morose, the amiable and the hypermoron, or near-normal.1917, William Eastbrook Chancellor, The hypermoron as educator, School and society v. 5. From the entry hypermoron
• The word misericordia implies an act of mercy but despite its amiable name, it refers to coercing or forcing a spirit to pass through the Gates of Death.2024, Rob Douglas, Nonie Douglas, “Pathways to Resolution” (chapter 12), in Unquiet Voices: The Magical Art of Laying Ghosts, Llewellyn…. From the entry misericord
• Always, he radiated an air of soigné self-confidence: he could be amiable in his opinions or waspish, but he never betrayed a flicker of doubt about what he thought.1997, Henry Louis Gates Jr., “The Passing of Anatole Broyard”, in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, New York: Random House, page 181. From the entry soigné
• Blanchard’s magic wand, the most representative brains and wills of the world’s governments, workers and employers meeting in Geneva, the amiable and hospitable amphitryon of the Swiss Alps.1981, International Labor Conference Record of Proceedings, pages 15-5. From the entry amphitryon
• Metzger, acting on instructions in the will, had retained this amiable, slightly adenoidal expert, for a percent of his valuation, to inventory and appraise Inverarity's stamp collection.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry adenoidal
• A morning-suited man of middle age and amiable aspect had come out of the church, and on this middle-aged man’s arm walked a girl in bridal white.1924 May 24 – July 12, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Sixpennyworth of Rice”, in Bill the Conqueror: His Invasion of England in the…. From the entry morning-suited
• The following appeal in French and in English is handed out with the hatchecks in Henri’s Restaurant, Lynbrook, Long Island, of which Henri Charpentier is the amiable owner.1919, George Sylvester Viereck, Viereck’s (The Fatherland Corp.), volume 10, page 155. From the entry hatcheck
• Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.1910 October 1, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Queer Feet”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and…. From the entry phantasmal
• “I didn't think Emeril would be able to pull so many pizzas off the makeline and get them next door so fast,” Frosty was saying, casting her an amiable look.2013, Lisa Plumley, So Irresistible. From the entry makeline

Meaning of amiable

1. adjective Friendly; kind; sweet; gracious.
2. adjective Of a pleasant and likeable nature; kind-hearted; easy to like.

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Questions about amiable in a sentence

How do you use amiable in a sentence?

Amiable is used as an adjective. For example: “He is incalculable when he's drunk. He can turn from an amiable person into a violent horror in a moment.”

What is a short sentence with amiable?

“an amiable person”

What does amiable mean?

Amiable means friendly; kind; sweet; gracious.