Cordiality

His cordiality may not be authentic.

He greeted her with cordiality.

From that day, amid all his cordiality, there was always a touch of suspicion in Mr. Trevor's manner towards me.

It was pretty difficult to break the ice, although that did not seem to be due to any lack of cordiality and pleasantness on his part.

Upon my entrance, Usher rose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuyé man of the world.

Adam gave her—the spaniel, not Mrs. Florin—a gentle prod with his foot and a lump of sugar. She licked his shoe with evident cordiality. Adam was not above feeling flattered by friendliness in dogs.

to exchange cordialities with people

Lucia rivalled these cordialities with equal fervour and about as much sincerity.