Meanings
comparative more affably · superlative most affably
- in an affable manner
1 more example
This fact shows our British independence and honest feeling—our higher orders are not such mere haughty aristocrats as the ignorant represent them: on the contrary, if a man have money they will hold out their hands to him, eat his dinners, dance at his balls, marry his daughters, or give their own lovely girls to his sons, as affably as your commonest roturier would do.
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 38, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Esperanto afable
- afablein an affable manner
Latin affābiliter
- affābiliterin an affable manner
Polish arcymiło, arcymile
- arcymiłoin an affable manner
- arcymilein an affable manner
Portuguese afavelmente
- afavelmentein an affable manner
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