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 *suave = sophisticated and charming
- The ambulance was a huge, suave, varnished, white thing.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
having a sophisticated charm
When said of a person, suave is not always complimentary. It is often said of a man who is not sincere. However, at it's most basic level it would imply that someone knows the proper or polite way to act, is confident, and effortlessly acts in a proper and gracious manner.