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bonhomie


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Definition:
a pleasant disposition; affability

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"Perfectly true!" chimed in Vassenka Veslovsky. "Perfectly! Oblonsky, of course, goes out of bonhomie, but other people say: ‘Well, Oblonsky stays with them.’..."

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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In his beautiful house at Richmond he played second fiddle to his clever wife with imperturbable bonhomie;

Emma Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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the grossness and obscene bonhomie of his body,

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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