How to Use cordiality in a Sentence

cordiality

noun

• By 1793 the oppressed people of Paris had come to hate king and clergy with equal cordiality.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• This is where the one-size-fits-all cordiality of a massive pop hit begins to feel disorienting.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• There’s a chumminess among them, an old-school cordiality that is also found in the story of a small town where life is hard but friends are everywhere.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2021
• It’s not so much — not in my experience — a lack of cordiality in one’s own neighborhood.
  — Brad Miner, National Review, 9 May 2021
• But that was pretty much it for us: a general air of cordiality prevailing, nothing more.
  — Bob Brody, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2022
• At the moment, just as New York is at 75% occupancy, a lone, fast-on-his-feet waiter is taking care of all the tables with remarkable agility and cordiality.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 12 May 2021
• In contrast to the apparent cordiality of the visit, Biden had made clear his discomfort with sitting face-to-face with the crown prince and repeatedly downplayed his trip to the Saudi Arabia.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022
• Few things in life are as suited to the low farce of British pantomime as the Brexit talks, and the two chief negotiators have been going at it with a will since a brief and fleeting moment of cordiality and goodwill at last week’s summit.
  — Geoffrey Smith, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2017
• Far from the tweet storms and hot glow of camera lights, conservatives and liberals subside into cordiality.
  — Asjylyn Loder, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
• San Diego’s new mayor and council members have signaled a new level of awareness and cordiality toward our sister community.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2022
• Following combustive talks between the world’s top two economies in Anchorage last month, little hope remains of recapturing the relative cordiality of the Obama years.
  — Time, 15 Apr. 2021
• Considering the depth of that enmity, a peace agreement had seemed unthinkable prior to Ahmed’s cordiality with Afwerki, who has served as president for the three decades since independence.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2021
• But Congress, with its protocols and rituals, was considered a relatively safe space for reporters, where cordiality was prized.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2020
• Black women characters in these stories who actively pursue their own interests without opting for the cordiality that is expected from them are seen as obstacles to be overcome.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2022
• That image of cordiality with the backdrop of the palace had been unthinkable until last month, before Sanchez defeated the former prime minister Mariano Rajoy in a parliamentary no confidence vote.
  — Aritz Parra, Fox News, 9 July 2018
• Certainly, although that era is remembered as a time of relative bipartisan cordiality, there were also major moments of social friction, even during periods when Washington was considered more genteel.
  — Katie Glueck, Town & Country, 29 June 2017
• But after episodes of divisiveness and fragmentation, our conferences have become festivals of cordiality and civility, peppered with forthright and respectful differences of opinion and interpretation.
  — Patty Limerick, The Denver Post, 25 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024