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Familiarity
"Familiarity" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Familiarity breeds contempt.
On the one hand he is kind to everyone, but on the other hand he never behaves with too much familiarity.
Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
Intelligence is our ability to begin understanding (or adapting to) new information, regardless of past familiarity.
I wouldn't permit such familiarity.
My familiarity with Esperanto allowed me to more deeply understand the structure and function of language.
To clasp in friendship the hand of the enemy of his house, to entertain him under his roof, to exchange with him the courtesies and the kindness of domestic familiarity, was a degradation which his proud spirit could not be bent to without a struggle.
Clubs I entered in high school were super good for gaining familiarity with my juniors and seniors.
Our company's visual identity was designed to evoke a sense of trust and familiarity.
It is truly a pleasure to hear you speak with such politeness to a cat. I don't know why, but people tend to speak very informally to cats, despite them not authorizing us to use that familiarity.
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It is also folly and injustice to deprive children[…]of their fathers familiaritie, and ever to shew them a surly, austere, grim, and disdainefull countenance, hoping thereby to keepe them in awfull feare and duteous obedience.
Do not keep familiarity with any but those, with whom you may improve your time.
Murrel did not in the least object to being called a monkey, yet he always felt a slight distaste when Julian Archer called him one.[…]It had to do with a fine shade between familiarity and intimacy which men like Murrel are never ready to disregard, however ready they may be to black their faces.
The objects around have been seen so often, that they have at last become, as it were, unseen; their familiarity does not carry us out of ourselves, for all their associations are our own.
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