congeniality

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Recent Examples of congeniality The goal for all business leaders hiring or training teams should be to emphasize the importance of congeniality, sociability and warmth–these attributes go a long way in building brand affinity and customer loyalty. Michael Shooster, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025 Missoula, Montana, where he was born, bequeathed him a folksy Eagle Scout congeniality, all nasal delivery and gee-whiz enthusiasm. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025 One person’s smile might mean congeniality or joy, while others might be a nervous expression of fear. Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024 Even more than his strong, octave-surfing Ontario accent, his willed congeniality—a mix of natural reserve and a morbid aversion to pretense—spoke to something in my bones. Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023 See All Example Sentences for congeniality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for congeniality
Noun
  • In the South, friendliness is not a passing state but a way of life.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Next year, this historic eatery celebrates 80 years of serving tasty, homestyle fare with neighborly friendliness.
    Sarah Kuta, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Critics particularly praised the chemistry between Johnson and Blunt, who channeled their real-life friendship to convey a genuine sense of ease between their characters.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
  • His entry covered 10 pages in total of the book, a storybook tale of their friendship interspersed with photographs.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Riley, a Northern California native, who has always exuded a Zen-like geniality, was part of a generation of young American composers who had turned away from audience-alienating atonal music, which had been proselytized by their teachers in the science-minded postwar academy.
    William Robin, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, Starr would be my roving ambassador of joy and amity in an America that felt starved of such things.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Those who yearn for peace and stability, commerce and comradery, amity with our friends and neighbors?
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Visuals of exaggerated cordiality between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and President Xi Jinping of China at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on September 1 displayed China’s convening power.
    Shyam Saran, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • One of the institute’s medical personnel, Farah (Kate Dickie), greets them with the kind of clinical cordiality that undercuts its outwardly soothing welcome with unnerving detachment.
    Jake Cole, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Meneghetti’s original Deux starred Barbara Sukowa and Martine Chevallier as a lesbian couple who come out after two decades of secret passion and companionship.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Navigating a loss of capacity or providing care and companionship for someone who is navigating an Alzheimer’s or similar diagnosis can be very isolating.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • People can deliberately cultivate more conscientiousness, boost their sociability or soften their neurotic edges.
    Dave Winsborough, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The Poodle combines intelligence with sociability.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The comity on school spending, however, shuns a debate that California’s politicians should be having — what to do about the system’s chronically subpar academic achievement.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
  • No private person’s natural rights could trump those of the community: preserving peace, order, and comity.
    Fara Dabhoiwala, Harpers Magazine, 4 June 2025

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“Congeniality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congeniality. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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