suavity

Even then, I understood that the sedulous life and inclination of the archaeologist were ill-suited to movie-spy suavity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

Those dudes are trying to play the sinister “ugly American” roles, although with a singular lack of suavity and not much success.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

Motifs were given expansive statements, then were cut up and brought back with edge and suavity.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

A laid-back number that flirts with Western swing, Buffett rhapsodizes about an outdated style of facial hair that conveys a certain classic Hollywood suavity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

She yearned to give him what he had never had,—pleasure, joy, the soft suavities of life, what she had had always.

From Together by Robert Herrick

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