debonair

Example Sentences

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As the movie goes on, it becomes apparent that she is present mainly because she wants to meet the debonair Rodgers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

“It was a very debonair thing to do.”

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

Here is this ostensibly brilliant, devilishly handsome, debonair man, touting his biotech voyeurism like he’s a kid showing off a painting he made in art class.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

Vargas Llosa’s air of debonair intellectual only added to the package: a writer for the New Statesman once described him as “tall, good-looking and with the social graces of the Latin American elite.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025

It is even difficult to imagine a boy who would do it, unless you realize from the start that Lancelot was not romantic and debonair.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White