Sample Sentences for
suave
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    There entered three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as officers of the police.  (source)
    suavity = sophisticated manners
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    Standing behind a liquor bar, Tony was rustling ice cubes in a glass and twirling a spoon in suave, romantic circles.  (source)
    suave = sophisticated and charming
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    She stood at parapets and wondered who had worked the stones, shaped these details of the suavest nuance, chevrons and rosettes, urns on balustrades, the classical swags of fruit, the scroll brackets supporting a balcony, and she thought ...  (source)
    suavest = most charming or sophisticated
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    Alfred looked away first, wishing something would happen, the train would get stuck between stations, the girl would fall down and need help, anything so he could walk over, suave and sophisticated, "I'm Alfred Brooks, may I be of service?"—just like in the movies.  (source)
    suave = having a sophisticated charm
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    Fervently hoping that he would get out before she did, Amy utterly ignored the basket at her feet, and congratulating herself that she had on her new traveling dress, returned the young man's greeting with her usual suavity and spirit.†  (source)
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    Hands clasped in front of him, suavely collegial, Nathaniel tells Snyder that his mentor, Mr. Harry Barnoff, put in forty-six years with the Cleveland Orchestra.†  (source)
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    "Pray sit down, Mr. Garth," continued the banker, in his suavest tone.†  (source)
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    "Well, Cooky?" he began, with a suaveness that was cold and of the temper of steel.  (source)
    suaveness = sophisticated charm
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Here are all suavities and charms of love.†  (source)
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    I'd imagined a god who was suave and cool—a movie-star type.†  (source)
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    Monte Cristo on the contrary, preserved a graceful suavity of demeanor, aided by a certain degree of simplicity he could assume at pleasure, and thus possessed the advantage.†  (source)
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    Green, a suavely tough little septuagenarian, has an imposing reputation among his peers, who admire his stage craft-a repertoire of actorish gifts that includes a sense of timing acute as a night-club comedian's.†  (source)
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    Last night the Count asked me in the suavest tones to write three letters, one saying that my work here was nearly done, and that I should start for home within a few days, another that I was starting on the next morning from the time of the letter, and the third that I had left the castle and arrived at Bistritz.  (source)
    suavest = the most polite and gracious
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