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Example sentences for: genial

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Reagan's persona was genial but addlepated old fool; Thurmond's was mean-spirited but concupiscent old racist.
Here is her despairing diary entry after she visited a memoir club and read a chapter aloud: "I couldn't help figuring a kind of uncomfortable boredom on the part of the males; to whose genial cheerful sense my revelations were at once mawkish and distasteful.
But she was afraid to go too far, to alienate all the "genial cheerful" men whose standards she continued to internalize.
"Fifteen people died at the Columbine High shootings, all but one of them white," the genial, bearded academic said in a recent interview.
On a brighter but no less arbitrary note, childless aristocrats picked genial Edward as their heir; he changed his name and became a snobbish landowner, kind to his less glamorous siblings but also condescending.