geniality

Example Sentences

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A scruffy-faced Radcliffe, twinkling accessible geniality in jeans and a sweatshirt, zips up and down the cavernous theater as though waging a one-man campaign against the isolation epidemic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Mostly they are dignified snapshots of him shaking hands with dignitaries and voters, offering up that big, gleaming expression of geniality that was his signature, walking across a tarmac or delivering a speech.

From Washington Post • Feb. 21, 2023

He still has the intense stare of the young man in those long-ago photos, but leavened with geniality; the once-dark hair is gray and sparse.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2020

With his pug nose, jutting jaw and penchant for slang--colleagues were "chaps" and a bad theory was a "bust flush"--he exuded a kind of blue-collar integrity and geniality.

From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2020

Joe sensed a mild geniality in her and it made him feel good.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck