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companionable

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Companionable (adj) means Pleasant to be with and easy to get on with.

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Pleasant to be with and easy to get on with.

"They are a companionable food; they make a pleasant, crunching noise when they are bitten, and so, when one is eating carrots, one can listen to the sound of one's eating and make a story from it." — James Stephens, The Demi-Gods (1914)

"Bottles of rye, purgative waters and eaux for every conceivable toilette made a companionable click in his worn carpet bag." — Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992)

"Then he strolled back again, kicking his heels carelessly, and a companionable silence fell between the three men." — G. K. Chesterton (1908)

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