suavity

And Mr. Consuelos, best known for the talk show “Live With Kelly & Mark,” exudes amusingly overripe suavity as the elusive Maurice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Those dudes are trying to play the sinister “ugly American” roles, although with a singular lack of suavity and not much success.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

“Parmi veder le lagrime” oozed with self-regarding longing, and “La donna è mobile” had the suavity of someone who doesn’t need to showboat.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

Muriel’s purported evasions provide Parker with a juicy platform for splendidly exuberant coyness, and Jesse’s clumsy attempts at amorous suavity allow Broderick to demonstrate the comedic subtlety for which he’s not always sufficiently recognized.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under all his gentle suavities there was a fixed, inflexible will, a calm self-restraint, and a composed philosophical measurement of others, that fitted him to bear despotic rule over an impulsive, unguarded nature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various

Neither the suavities of Carteret nor the intrigues of Walpole had any chance against the set opposition which met them.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Swift, Jonathan

Even Mrs. Dyckman was afraid of Mrs. Abby, who lacked the suavities of Wotton.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

I had great admiration for the suavities and graces of life, but it is beyond any human capacity to endure what society imposes upon many in America.

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)