amusable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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To use a French expression, he was in the highest degree amusable, but not in the least amusant.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
The evenings were passed either in Mrs. Lockhart's bedroom or in chatting quietly by the fireside below, but wherever we were he was always the same kind, unostentatious, amusing, and amusable companion.
From Marriage by Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone
He means an easy-tempered fellow, amusing and amusable.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James
It may have often been placed on her table when Maintenon was paying the penalty of her hard-earned greatness by the painful task of endeavouring—as she acknowledged—to amuse a man who was no longer amusable.
From The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of
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