niceness

Example Sentences

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“His own coping mechanism was radical niceness to everybody — making human connections so that he would have community and feel like he’s making things better.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

Everyday niceness may not be as exciting as beating people up at a martial arts gym, but it is what actually made Zuckerberg his money.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

After Ernst arranges the meeting with Disney, Marks pencils in a toothbrush mustache and transforms himself into a creepily avuncular version of the character, whose Midwestern niceness becomes menacing when his business interests are threatened.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024

The participants who performed acts of niceness reported higher well-being on all four—a sense of meaning in life, self- satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, and mood—than those who did errands.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2023

Her niceness is writ large, it is her defining quality and she needs it acknowledged, often, daily almost, which can be tiring.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins