agreeable

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The impression unconsciously taken simply conveys a feeling that the woman has made herself agreeable, as it was her duty to do,--agreeable, as far as that smile went, in some very infinitesimal degree.

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  1. adjective To one's liking; pleasing: agreeable weather.
  2. adjective Suitable; conformable: a practice agreeable to the law.
  3. adjective Ready to consent or submit: I am agreeable to your plan.

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  • And so if you are agreeable, I'll be glad if we go on a bit of a cruise along the coast for about ten days or so I'm agreeable--more days, more dollars. —  Tom Gerrard
  • Are you agreeable--or otherwise--Mr. Falkirk I have never made any professions of being agreeable, Miss Hazel; and it never was charges to me, that I know No, sir, certainly,--not when rides are in question. —  Wych Hazel
  • [M]That is easy and agreeable which is natural; what is forc'd, will appear distorted and give Disgust L] Dum vitat humum, nubes et inania captet_. —  'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation
  • Our being used or not used to the object cannot make us perceive any similarity in the lineaments of their countenance to the lineaments, if I may so say, of our refined virtues and affections, which alone constitute beauty; and therefore I am induced to believe that they are a lower order of human beings than the Europeans Beauty is an assemblage of every human charm; yet what we call the agreeable is often more captivating The agreeable, in person, is composed of beauties and defects, as is the common form, but differently composed. —  An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc.
  • And when you recall the agreeable, the elevating sensation you have experienced in front of a perfect piece of architecture (still so rare), will you not readily concede that where every edifice should be beautiful, and you never walked or drove out but through streets of palaces and artistic parks, the effect on the whole population of this ever-present beauty and grandeur, would be to refine, to expand, to elevate. —  Essays Æsthetical
 

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  1. from Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable (French agréable), from agreer: see agree, v.
 

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