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genial

[jeen-yuhl, jee-nee-uhl] / ˈdʒin yəl, ˈdʒi ni əl /


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The Quaest poll, commissioned by Banco Genial, interviewed 2,000 people between May 5 and May 8 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

From Reuters • May 11, 2022

Genial rather than gregarious, he is nonetheless a good fit for conservative Montana.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2020

Genial and witty, the thirty-year-old Whitehorn was married to a woman who was part white, part Cheyenne.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017

Two years later, he played the menacing criminal mastermind, "Genial" Harry Grout, in the BBC sitcom Porridge.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2016

Genial as ever, Captain Smith appeared, his ruddy face wearing an expression of benign wonderment at the unusual summons.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.




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