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US
/ˈswɑv/
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[ UK /swˈɑːv/ ]
[ UK /swˈɑːv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having a sophisticated charm
a debonair gentleman -
smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
How To Use suave In A Sentence
- My red lips curl into a crafty little smile at the thought of that suave, devil of a man sitting on the sixty-eighth floor.
- Go in dressed as a Bond character and you'll just look pretty suave. Times, Sunday Times
- My only cavil about Aden Gillett's neurotically suave Charles is that he sometimes puts emotion before diction so that you lose the full richness of his past relationship with the vividly polysyllabic Mrs Winthrop-Llewellyn.
- It was a suave, sophisticated affair with no riff-raff allowed in the door.
- Dressed in a beige, linen Ermenegildo Zegna suit, he was every bit the suave, debonair businessman.
- Im sorry but theres nothing "suave" about this at all! Make An Outlet-Mounted Charge Station From A Shampoo Bottle | Lifehacker Australia
- Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta. Pretty Woman
- he is suavely charming and all the ladies love him
- Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta. Archive 2008-03-01
- Instead, they went after the lesser-known "petits ma î tres" (mainly 18th-century French paintings, 17th - through early 19th-century Italian and French sculptures), usually following their private tastes for soft-skinned, sensuous women and muscular naked men, whether suave and still or erotically writhing. Nice Wing, Pity About the Art