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Recent Examples of mellowness
There’s also no attempt to recreate the magic of Cash Money’s platinum-plus Y2K era; this record may offer ample opportunities for azzes looking to be backed up, but even its hardest songs are presented with a mellowness of spirit.
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Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 7 Apr. 2026
The mellowness of the Parmesan and pecans balanced out the sweet-tart of the veggies and apples with the lemon lovely dressing.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 16 Nov. 2025
Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 7 Apr. 2026
The mellowness of the Parmesan and pecans balanced out the sweet-tart of the veggies and apples with the lemon lovely dressing.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 16 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mellowness
Noun
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The dates provide just enough sweetness to tame and enhance the chocolate while also letting the cocoa shine and show off its true colors.—
Alaina Chou,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
30 Apr. 2026
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The sweetness of the roll and the ooey, gooey pizza ingredients create the perfect appetizer for game day.—
Jenna Sims,
Southern Living,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But one suspected the real reason for Huang’s geniality lay elsewhere.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
16 Dec. 2025
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Riley, a Northern California native, who has always exuded a Zen-like geniality, was part of a generation of young American composers who had turned away from audience-alienating atonal music, which had been proselytized by their teachers in the science-minded postwar academy.—
William Robin,
New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Surely there was something more beneath all this mild pleasantness, some edge of resentment, a few shards of indignation on the brink of cutting through.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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But despite the pleasantness, there are still some areas where the graphics are lacking.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
14 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The steadfast pushback against the administration might appear on the surface to be an encouraging trend, given the complaisance of the Republican majorities in Congress and weak-kneed capitulation to Trump by leaders of institutions such as universities and major corporations.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.—
Lesley M.M. Blume,
Town & Country,
6 Dec. 2022
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He was dressed in a T-shirt and a tracksuit jacket, and spoke with an offbeat affability—a holdover from Boulder’s hippie days.—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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Despite his aura of affability, D’Amaro fought to win every match.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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This dynamic creates a feedback loop in which users reward agreeableness with engagement, and AI companies are incentivized to optimize a model to exploit agreeableness.—
Tamilla Triantoro,
The Conversation,
13 Apr. 2026
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As millions of people turn to AI for companionship and guidance, that agreeableness may pose a subtle but serious threat.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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Yet Russell’s likability also throws the character’s crimes into relief, making their horrors and ramifications more striking and unsettling by their contrast with his superficial amiability.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
27 Apr. 2026
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All of this is to say, the man is a good sport, and his work in The Fall Guy as stuntman Colt Seavers reflects that amiability.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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The grain whisky component adds silky sweetness and light caramel notes, maintaining the whiskey's balanced, approachable character.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Doubtless, that will be sweetness and light, too.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Mellowness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mellowness. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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