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Agreeability   Listen
noun
Agreeability  n.  
1.
Easiness of disposition. (Obs.)
2.
The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Agreeability" Quotes from Famous Books



... and is one who can compare as well as see ... Among the men [of the Boston society] are Dr. Chinning, a prophet in our country, a pamphleteer in his own; Bancroft, the historian of America, a man of superior talents and great agreeability, but a black sheep in society, on account of his Van Buren politics, against whom the white sheep of the Whig party will not rub themselves; Prescott, the author of Ferdinand and Isabella, a handsome, half blind shunner of the vanities of the ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... another little peculiarity about the manner of the professor. In his excessive agreeability he would always preface his answer to any observation whatever with some sort of assent, such as "yes, sir," or "yes, madam," ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... justice, which showed me that the agreeability had all been on Mr. Blake's side, prevented me from acknowledging this compliment as it deserved; so I merely bowed stiffly, without speaking. By this time he had succeeded in putting on his great-coat, but ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever


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