amenable
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Ameniable
An adjective describing a person that is helpful (willing) and responds with a friendly and good-natured manner.
Derived from, and fully incorporating the combined meaning of, two adjectives:
Amenable
1. Responsive to advice, authority, or suggestion; willing. 2. Responsible to higher authority; accountable: amenable to the law.
Amiable
1. Friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likable. 2. Cordial; sociable; congenial: Also see amicable.
Derived from, and fully incorporating the combined meaning of, two adjectives:
Amenable
1. Responsive to advice, authority, or suggestion; willing. 2. Responsible to higher authority; accountable: amenable to the law.
Amiable
1. Friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likable. 2. Cordial; sociable; congenial: Also see amicable.
The shop assistant went out of their way to find me the same dress in my size at another store, and was very friendly about it too, even though it made her late for her tea-break. It was a pleasure to be served by such an ameniable person.
Ameniable by Lubob of London November 20, 2010
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Amendable
To be agreeable to something. An action or suggestion. Dealing with a level of persuasion.
french: origin.
french: origin.
Colleague: Hey Gryf, I have a few introductions I would like to make to you sometime. I think it will help with networking.
Gryf: Sure. That’s seems to be an amendable plan.
Gryf: Sure. That’s seems to be an amendable plan.
Amendable by Professor Of the First Bench June 11, 2018
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006
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fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)