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In 1914, the “Duke of the Pike” — a debonair character who lived large, mostly on brash cheek and bad checks — finally got caught when his car broke down in Compton.

Vargas Llosa’s air of debonair intellectual only added to the package: a writer for the New Statesman once described him as “tall, good-looking and with the social graces of the Latin American elite.”

Manilow asked the crowd of the debonair record executive who helped shepherd him to stardom.

Tall, debonair and handsome, Hassilev also was the sex symbol of the trio.

This lack of social synchrony can land even the most debonair droid in the “uncanny valley.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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