debonair
Example Sentences
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Though he bridled against the genteel expectations of his upbringing, he was popular and effortlessly debonair.
More than 37 years after Ricardo Montalbán finished his run as Mr. Roarke, the debonair concierge of an enigmatic, wish-fulfilling beach resort in the Pacific Ocean, “Fantasy Island” is returning once more to network television.
From New York Times
There was absolutely nothing elegant about it — “No sweetness debonair of tearful harp or glib piano thine,” as Whitman wrote in “To a Locomotive in Winter.”
From New York Times
With the looks of a crooner, Galtier’s debonair appearance belies a fierce inner steel.
From Seattle Times
Born in Jerusalem and educated in the United States at Ivy League schools, he was a debonair polymath, among our last true public intellectuals.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
