- plural of suavity.
suavities
Example Sentences
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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
Over Charity's shoulder and through the spray of the goura on her hat he saw Kedzie sharp and stark, her suavities of line and the milk-smooth fabric of her envelope.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
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 Jonathan Swift
He was an educated, cultivated man, accustomed to the luxuries and full of the suavities of civilized life.
From In Both Worlds by William Henry Holcombe
