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debonair
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  • I was thinking more like debonair.†  (source)
  • Luc, so suave and debonair, so steady and strong.†  (source)
  • But the truth was, Mama looked old, even older than Papa with his dapper new hat and his linen guayaberas and his high black boots, and a debonair cane that seemed more a self-important prop than a walking aid.†  (source)
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  • I was debonair, a ladies' man, a young Frank Sinatra.†  (source)
  • It was something, all right, to see that slender young fellow standing debonairly at the bar among the truck drivers and ditch diggers.†  (source)
  • They went to rob and kill—" His voice trembled, toppled, disappeared, as though strangled by the intensity of his own loathing for the debonair, gum-chewing defendants.†  (source)
  • He had no doubts at all that someone as debonair and intellectual as General Peckem approved of his smoking with a cigarette holder, even though the two were in each other's presence rather seldom, which in a way was very lucky, Colonel Cathcart recognized with relief, since General Peckem might not have approved of his cigarette holder at all.†  (source)
  • Prof came out and, while did not look his most debonair, was neat and clean, hair combed, dimples back and happy sparkle in eye—fake cataract gone.†  (source)
  • Blessed with a rakish smile and a debonair gaze, he is handsome, brilliant, witty, charismatic, tender, and able to bed almost any woman he wants—and he has bedded quite a few.†  (source)
  • His enormous eyes, lambent, extravagantly lashed, smiled out at her wickedly: she looked around him for reflectors, microphones, camera cabling, but there was only himself and a debonair bottle of French Beaujolais, which he claimed to've smuggled last year into California, this rollicking lawbreaker, past the frontier guards.†  (source)
  • They are no longer so spruce or so debonair.†  (source)
  • So we licked spoons and I was in general sociable, helpful, debonair, and thought of the two colors of my silk suspenders and the fit of my shirt, Simon's gifts.†  (source)
  • It is even difficult to imagine a boy who would do it, unless you realize from the start that Lancelot was not romantic and debonair.†  (source)
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