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
• Makoto has never approved of his son’s marrying a divorced mother, and the limits of their cordiality begin to show over the course of the family birthday party that begins proceedings.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Suspicion is, for obvious reasons, built into the relationship between the press and government officials, but, normally, both parties have felt an interest in maintaining at least the appearance of cordiality.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• 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: 6 Dec 2024