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  • noun The quality of being personable.

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Examples

  • As a commentator on the Royal Wedding for NBC, I was filled with pride in my country for the precision-timing and perfect step of the Household Division, the fine behavior of the crowds, and the charm and personability of the young couple.

    Britain Goes Wobbly on Terror Andrew Roberts 2011

  • Perhaps its a testament to the skill and personability of Utah clothing retailer clerks.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Shamir and Netanyahu than to Mr. Peres, who gets high marks for his personability, not his policies.

    The Line Between Bold and Reckless Hillel Halkin 2011

  • Perhaps its a testament to the skill and personability of Utah clothing retailer clerks.

    Deej to Seminary, Part 3: Contact your Government and a Serious Reflection 2009

  • GOODMAN: Well, I think that probably the democrats would have liked some composite figure taken from all of these candidates: You know, Dean's energy; you know, Edwards 'personability; and Kerry's smarts, and experience.

    CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2004 2004

  • They're hoping their know-how and personability will win out over Noodle's shopping carts, headphone-wearing employees, buyers based on Long Island, and impersonality.

    Toy Store Giant Muscles Cute Shops in Upper West Side 1999

  • Who ever has bowed in reverence before the great and original personability of Jesus must look upon this undertaking of the ancient Christians as almost an insult.

    The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I. 1872-1939 1903

  • 'I was dishpleased at the personability av that remark, so I tucks him under my arm an' carries him to Crook who was watchin 'how the fight wint.

    Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'I was dishplease dat the personability av that remark, so I tucks him under my arm an' carries him to Crook who was watchin 'how the fight wint.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The director of "Appropriate Adult," Julian Jarrold, said Mr. West's personability and charisma had helped secure him the part.

    NYT > Home Page By SARAH LYALL 2011

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