suavities

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Owen observed that Mrs. Waterlow, while maintaining all the suavities of intercourse, did not address Gwendolen as dearest.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

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