bonhomie
cheerful friendliness and good-natured ease in social interaction
Word origin: From French bonhomie, from bonhomme, good-natured man (bon good plus homme man).
Bonhomie in a sentence
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His natural bonhomie made him enormously popular at every gathering he attended.
The reception was filled with the easy bonhomie of colleagues who had worked together for decades.
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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
Using “bonhomie” well
Bonhomie names a warm, good-natured sociability, a noun for an atmosphere rather than a single act. It carries a wholly positive tone.
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