Friendly

Friendly

Friendly means acting in a non-threatening manner toward and/or showing kindness to someone, as a friend would behave. Thus friendly implies a mode of friendship as distinct from amiable or genial. Professional service is expected to be amiable or genial but not necessarily friendly. The opposite is unfriendly or even hostile.

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Famous quotes containing the word friendly:

    The comfortable smell of friendly fingers,
    Hair’s fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers
    About dead leaves and last year’s ferns. . . .
    Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)

    The friendly cow, all red and white,
    I love with all my heart:
    She gives me cream with all her might,
    To eat with apple tart.
    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “I,” said the sheep, with curly horn,
    —Unknown. The Friendly Beasts (l. 13)