Genial

//ˈdʒiːnɪəl//

"Genial" in a Sentence (22 examples)

My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.

"I can see that you have not slept for a night or two," said Holmes, in his easy, genial way.

"I can see that you have not slept for a night or two," said Holmes, in his easy, genial way. "That tries a man's nerves more than work, and more even than pleasure. "

A pure sea-breeze pervades the whole surrounding country, the evenness of temperature producing a very genial and happy influence in pulmonic diseases, more than all the drugs compounded by any pharmaceutist in the world.

They were elderly men, and had genial voices.

a genial glow

Such a face was calculated to awaken not only the calm sentiment of esteem, the distant one of admiration, but some feeling more tender, genial, intimate—friendship, perhaps, affection, interest.

This genial girl, like her brother, was in the grand situation of having no home and of carrying on life, such a splendid kind of life, by successive visits to relations; […].

There had been the shine of candles, and the laughter of the women, the old Judge's genial humor.

George Relph plays the part of the Vicar of the Parish, a railway enthusiast, who becomes amateur engine driver, with Sir Godfrey Tearle (the Bishop) as his fireman, while Stanley Holloway is the genial toper who provides the cash to buy the line.

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[Abdullah] Shami, a genial and open-faced man of forty-five, greeted me warmly.

Last month, Tucker Carlson’s genial interview with the white nationalist Nick Fuentes detonated a bomb that further fractured the Trump-era conservative movement he once helped galvanize.

genial warmth

We met other families on the Long Walk, enjoying like ourselves the return of the genial season.

Men of genius have so often attacht the highest value to their less genial works.

About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.

the genial bed

Creator Venus, genial power of love.

The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver.

In time the bells ceased, and the bakers were shut up; and yet there was a genial shadowing forth of all these dinners and the progress of their cooking, in the thawed blotch of wet above each baker's oven; where the pavement smoked as if its stones were cooking too.

The all-generating powers and genial heat / Of Nature, when she strikes thro’ the thick blood / Of cattle, […]

natural incapacity and genial indisposition

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