- plural of suavity.
suavities
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Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even Mrs. Dyckman was afraid of Mrs. Abby, who lacked the suavities of Wotton.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
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 T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
The two women were perfectly conscious of reciprocal dislike, but they smothered the feeling beneath conventional suavities.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
I hoped, however, like the foolish inexperienced old bachelor I am, that her feminine asperity would be tempered by the suavities of married life.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
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