debonair

How To Use debonair In A Sentence

• Agnes is said of agna a lamb, for she was humble and debonair as a lamb, or of agnos in Greek, which is to say debonair and piteous, for she was debonair and merciful. The Golden Legend, vol. 2
• A tailored jacket hung elegantly from his broad shoulders, giving him a debonair look.
• He drew himself up, a smile of debonair gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the ecossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: War and Peace
• Then Foxy Davis had seemed a debonair remotely superior, and glamorous personage.
• He is supposed to be a charming and debonair ladies man.
• The debonair, sophisticated singer has tackled so many different styles that he transcends easy classification.
• But his would-be debonair, self-satisfied yet insecure dotard could not be more appropriately laughable or pitiful.
• The English norm was to simplify to a single consonant, which is what we find with commissionaire and concessionaire, presumably following the pattern of the much earlier borrowing debonair, and also doctrinaire, which are recorded for the most part with a single n. On one n or two
• Andrew enjoyed golf and will be remembered for his debonair appearance, particularly the rakish angle of his trilby hat and his cream calfskin gloves.
• But what is lightsome and blithe in her, was debonaire in him. CHAPTER XVIII