affability

How To Use affability In A Sentence

• This usage proceeded, in part, from the notion of consanguinity between every member of a clan, even of the lowest degree, to his chieftain, and the affability and courtesy with which the head was in the habit of treating those over whom he ruled. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
• His disposition is said to be most amiable and genial, and his affability endeared him especially to his own countrymen, by whom he was called alii lokomaikai, "the kind chief. The Hawaiian Archipelago
• Described as ‘a model of affability and dignity… remarkable for his fine form and manly beauty,’ he was something of a dandy whose favorite overcoat was made of sable skins lined with scarlet broadcloth.
• Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel
• Dignified affability is the becomingness of superiority, which while it does not remove the line of distinction, does not render it painfully visible.
• Below his preternatural affability there is some acid and steel.
• The words came as easily from his lips as if his practice in affability had been of the very longest. The Filigree Ball
• The virtue of justice comes wrapped in other tempering traits: gratitude, liberality, affability, and mercy.
• We must now consider the friendliness which is called affability, and the opposite vices which are flattery and quarreling. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
• Perhaps his ability to weather the ebb and flow of public fickleness lies in his sheer affability and generosity of spirit.