suavities

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The two women were perfectly conscious of reciprocal dislike, but they smothered the feeling beneath conventional suavities.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

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

He did not attract the world of women by elaborate brutalities, or charm it by silly suavities.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

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 Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)