Those who knew him best must have found in him very likable qualities, and acknowledged the generosities of his nature, while they were amused at his humorous spleen and his serious contemplation of his own greatness.
Fielding essays in "Tom Jones" to show the love between two very likable flesh-and-blood young folk: the many mishaps of the twain being but an embroidery upon the accepted fact that the course of true love never did run smooth.
Who does not find something likable in the Fotheringay and in the Campaigner?
She is a likable little lady, and I sincerely hope she knows what she is doing.
The students are jolly, likable fellows, but they can talk of nothing but strata and formation.
He was so likablethat father, who was pretty homesick by that time and would have loved anything American, fell in love with him.
A likable youth with artistic tendencies is converted, for a time at least, to the ways, and works, and daughter of a puritan family.
A likable little man, tainted by accusations, but part of the once thrilling thoughts of the future.
I was brought up on a newspaper called PM," recalls Gaines, an instantly likable native New Yorker who looks like a cross between Santa Claus and a middle-aged hippie.
Tony owes his success not only to his good looks and his acting ability, but also to his likable off-camera personality.
Our employees is all loyal, likable and Lithuanians!
The lad, being himself as likable as he found the lively foreigner interesting, became in time something of a comrade to the fencing master.
He is the most likable of all the types but his indolence sometimes strains even the love of his family to the breaking point.
He is so likable he either induces you to let him out of it or gets somebody to do it for him.
He is so genial, likable and yet so bent on saving himself work that he can get more work out of others than can any other type.
She made them averse to toil and then made them so likable that they can usually get the rest of us to do their hardest work for them.
He doesn't look much older than you do, and for all he's so dignified there's something so boyish and likable about him that I felt chummy with him right away.
These men go harmlessly mad in time, believing themselves just behind the wall of fortune--most likable and simple men, for whom it is well to do any kindly thing that occurs to you except lend them money.
He is nice in his habits and is said to have likable traits.
Dick's a very likable fellow, and Elsie feels more satisfied when I'm about.
Then your cousin is a likable lad; though he's given me trouble.
Greenwater was a port of call for Death Valley Slim, a character of western deserts, who normally was a happy-go-lucky likable fellow.
Jim Butler, more rancher than gold hunter was a likable happy-go-lucky fellow, who could strum a banjo and sing a song.
One payday at his ranch, the good looking and likable young Mexican who worked for him, came for his money.
Smith, a capable and likable chap, in working over the districts, located several claims open for filing by reason of Johnny's failure to do his assessment work.
The greater part of these decent likable fellows could not warm up to anything big, they simply hadn't it in them.
He had risen now, and a gleam of the old likable Joe came for a moment into his eyes.
Two if you wish," said Jerningham, with one of his likable smiles.
Jacket was a likable youngster; his devotion was thoroughly unselfish; it had not been easy to wound him.
Be more than ordinarily likablewhen you have to deal with a surly prospect.
People who are like the ideas we have about likable people.
On the other hand, if you have one especially likable feature, it tends to lessen the disagreeable impression of things about you that the other man does not like.
He will place you mentally in a situation where the likable qualities he has found in you might be employed to his satisfaction.
In order to get yourself wanted it is necessary that you show him the lack, and that you can fill it, and that you would be likable when filling it.
Success is not to be won by getting in where you are not wanted, however likable you may be.
Sidenote: One Likable Thing Helps] If there is one thing about you that another man dislikes, it disproportionately tinges his entire attitude of mind toward you.
At the same time, though the twenty-four figured dials of Italian clocks recorded a later hour, a young man of more than ordinarily likable appearance sat alone at a terrace table of a Capri inn.
He was an Englishman of title and a thoroughly likable fellow.
To Sandy, Westlake seemed little more than a likable lad, placing him at about twenty-three or four.
After luncheon at the camp, where Eliphalet Congdon proved himself a very likable human being, he sought her as she was leaving the dining hall.
I don't mind saving that you're a likable chap, but pathetically helpless in emergencies like most of our brethren.
He had a likable face, or it would have been likable had it been in repose.
I knew," she said, "that you were here, and I have heard Richard speak of you and say how good and likable you were.
Not a great beauty as had been her mother, she was yet a handsome woman, clear brunette with bright, dark eyes and a most likable mouth.
He shaded his candle with his hand, and the light struck back, showing a strong and rosy and likable face.
His whole appearance was so likable that Louise welcomed him cordially, in spite of her regret at losing the doctor's society, and at once set about making him feel at home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "likable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
