Positive personality trait
Cordial
Warm, polite, and sincerely friendly.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Greets people politely and warmly, even rivals.
- Keeps a friendly tone in a formal setting.
- Stays civil after a disagreement.
Fits when a person is friendly in a polite, slightly formal way
Not when the relationship is close, where cordial would sound cool
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
On a resume, cordial says only that someone is polite; describe a relationship kept or a dispute settled instead.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] keeps cordial relations with everyone, including [a difficult client or a rival team], which has helped us more than once.
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Report card comment [Name] is cordial with classmates and staff and greets everyone politely.
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In a story, shown not told The two candidates had argued all evening on stage. Afterwards they shook hands, and one asked after the other's mother by name.
The two rivals stayed cordial and shook hands after every match.
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