Friendly
Friendly adjective - Having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest.
Usage example: as a friendly gesture, we presented our new neighbors with a plate of homemade cookies
Gracious is a synonym for friendly in characteristic topic. In some cases you can use "Gracious" instead an adjective "Friendly", when it comes to topics like polite, favourably inclined, affable.
Gracious
Gracious adjective - Showing a natural kindness and courtesy especially in social situations.
Usage example: a gracious host who goes out of his way to make every guest feel welcome
Friendly is a synonym for gracious in characteristic topic. You can use "Friendly" instead an adjective "Gracious", if it concerns topics such as kind, polite, courteous, favourably inclined.
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Both words in one sentence
- Then, after the match, Thunderlips is gracious and friendly.
Source: Pro Wrestling Is Real -
Later on in Changes, he's actually quite friendly and polite and gracious when Susan and Harry burst into his castle-cave.
Source: True Neutral -
Despite this, though, they are extremely gracious, kind, generous and friendly in their own creepy way.
Source: Series / The Addams Family
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