What is "amiably"

Usage examples of "amiably".

He was polishing a pair of steel-rimmed glasses as Bingo and Handsome approached, and when they paused in front of him, he placed the glasses carefully astride his nose and peered out through them amiably.

Miss Chadwick wore pince-nez, stooped, was dowdily dressed, amiably vague in speech, and happened to be a brilliant mathematician.

With some women, perhaps, he would not have hesitated: he would have argued that the prize was to the victor, and that, Gering gone, Jessica would amiably drift upon Iberville.

For now, he thought, sitting here, chatting amiably with pale-blue Hask, dark-blue Kelkad, and gray Torbat, first contact between the human race and aliens seemed to be going spectacularly well.

After allowing the horse to drink, Cullen left him amiably munching the spindly clumps of grass that grew beneath the feathery manuka and kanuka trees, and climbed down the bank before shedding his boots, dusty denims and finally his battered leather Akubra hat.

When Burl and Saya walked aside from the cave, the dog trotted amiably with them.

Kringan, wearing braid-spangled viridian shorts and a vest over his gray fur, chatted amiably in his adjoining office with a group of senior officers.

He greeted Brat amiably, however, as one old friend to another, and pulled out a chair for him.

Fizz telephoned the Metropole, chatted amiably to the Maggie for a moment or two, then asked to be put through to Miss Brett as if her call was expected.

There had been some doubt whether of right he should not have taken Lady Eustace, but it was held by Mrs Dick that her ladyship had somewhat impaired her rights by the eccentricities of her career, and also that she would amiably pardon any little wrongdoing against her of that kind,--whereas Lady Monogram was a person much to be considered.

Wensley agreed, as amiably as anyone could with his cheeks flattened by Perv claws.

Nom Anor shrugged and smiled amiably: gestures he had learned from his impersonations of the human species.

As I sat down in a student desk the police had commandeered more classrooms I nodded amiably at her attendant constable, a Geordie whose hair was the colour of the flashing part of a Belisha beacon.

The food for its satire, too, is most admirably chosen, for no feature of the social life of that place and period is more amiably absurd than the efforts of the handicraftsmen and tradespeople, with their prosaic surroundings, to keep alive by dint of pedantic formularies the spirit of minstrelsy, which had a natural stimulus in the chivalric life of the troubadours and minnesingers of whom the mastersingers thought themselves the direct and legitimate successors.

Water leaked inoffensively around the snapless gaps and trickled amiably down the doorframe.