How to Use bonhomie in a Sentence

bonhomie

noun
Definition of bonhomienext
Synonyms for bonhomienext
  • The drinks that are poured add to the sense of bonhomie.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Too much frat-boy bonhomie sets off my alarms, squeezes the adrenals.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
  • The place brings to mind the grim bonhomie of Maxim’s in occupied Paris.
    — Barry Blitt, The Hive, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Hootie was forged in the fire of resistance, not bonhomie.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 6 June 2019
  • When the group reconvened in Lima this month, the bonhomie was gone.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • This reticence did little to dampen the bonhomie of the crowds.
    — John Leland, New York Times, 30 May 2018
  • For all his shift-change bonhomie and diplomacy on the dais, O’Brien can be an abrasive force in the office.
    — Nick Tabor, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
  • But that bonhomie seemed to evaporate at a hearing on the other side of the Capitol this month.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Inside the court, Marshall brought his brethren together with the force of his will and a spirit of bonhomie.
    — Adam J. White, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • The atmosphere on the first day, beneath a surface bonhomie, was tense.
    — Simon Akam, Outside Online, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The bonhomie between the two is just the tip of the spear of a broader ideological alliance.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • That the cast is uniformly winning only adds to the spirit of bonhomie.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Pine is the best thing in the film, his natural bonhomie nicely oiled and seasoned with creepiness.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Like the first summit, the impromptu meeting on May 26th featured a show of bonhomie.
    — The Economist, 27 May 2018
  • Here the façade of bonhomie gets scraped away easily, leaving the rancor exposed like old brick.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Johnson shrugs off these fears with his usual bonhomie.
    — Samuel Earle, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The rivalry is refreshing in this age of kumbaya, let’s-all-hold-hands-to-the-EV-future bonhomie.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 10 July 2021
  • Now, Naomi Campbell is calling for bonhomie in the high-fashion world.
    — Erika Harwood, Vanities, 2 Feb. 2017
  • The bonhomie at the event did little to mask Trump’s political struggles.
    — David Nakamura, Washington Post, 8 July 2020
  • When Kapoor arrived at the site that day, he was horrified by the state of progress, his voice quivering with anger, all bonhomie dispelled.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Amid the bonhomie, the siblings say, Mr. Arnault is gauging how each of his children is measuring up.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Rainey is late to the session, but the musicians, with their easygoing bonhomie, are unfazed.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Whether this photo-op summitry achieved anything beyond the bonhomie is a lot less clear.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 June 2018
  • From breweries to downtown shopping to a new ballpark to a vibrant art presence, there’s a culture of bonhomie here.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • For all his bonhomie, Trump has little to show in terms of denuclearization.
    — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Barney’s casually racist bonhomie may be in keeping with the character and the times (the action is set in 1907); the question is what the porter himself has to say about it.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2021
  • When pub doors, the lifeblood of the craic that binds Irish bonhomie, shuttered for months during the initial pandemic lockdown, the seed for a new business segment was born.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • In the before times, inflation was low, so (largely) were salaries, and the five-day-in-office workweek was full of forced bonhomie, ping-pong tables, and work happy hours.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The two made a point of emphasising their personal bonhomie.
    — Ian Hall, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2022
  • But this salt-of-the-earth bonhomie soon begins to feel facile as we're seemingly barred from seeing any part of him that isn't hopelessly endearing.
    — Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2020

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