bonhomie

Example Sentences

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Mr. Sottile’s Johnny exudes a warm bonhomie, embracing Linda and Ned’s smoldering rebelliousness, but also showing sincere affection for Julia, whom Ms. Griggs makes likable despite her overweening ambition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

The former high school hero is still coasting on his charisma and only starting to realize how little he’ll have once he loses his looks and life-of-the-party bonhomie.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

But such information would only have puzzled Trump and complicated the shamrock bonhomie, and Vance — a Roman Catholic convert, after all — beamed in silence from the sofa.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2025

The relative bonhomie in Paris was briefly imperilled at the outset by a furore when organisers mixed up the two nations’ names in the opening ceremony, for which they apologised.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2024

Don kept talking, his voice too larded in bonhomie, her dislike clawing at her throat.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie