Both Uses of
suave
in
Babbitt
- The smart shopping-district, with rich and quiet light on crystal pendants and furs and suave surfaces of polished wood in velvet-hung reticent windows.†
Chpt 17 *
- The ambulance was a huge, suave, varnished, white thing.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(suave) having a sophisticated charm -- often said of a man who is not sincere
("sophisticated" in the sense of knowing the proper or polite way to act, being confident, and effortlessly acting in a proper and gracious manner)