suavity

And Mr. Consuelos, best known for the talk show “Live With Kelly & Mark,” exudes amusingly overripe suavity as the elusive Maurice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Those dudes are trying to play the sinister “ugly American” roles, although with a singular lack of suavity and not much success.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025

Motifs were given expansive statements, then were cut up and brought back with edge and suavity.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

Steve Kerr’s potential for outburst has always been there, under the judicious manner and the suavity.

From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022

I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two women were perfectly conscious of reciprocal dislike, but they smothered the feeling beneath conventional suavities.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George

Under all his gentle suavities there was a fixed, inflexible will, a calm self-restraint, and a composed philosophical measurement of others, that fitted him to bear despotic rule over an impulsive, unguarded nature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various

Even Mrs. Dyckman was afraid of Mrs. Abby, who lacked the suavities of Wotton.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

I hoped, however, like the foolish inexperienced old bachelor I am, that her feminine asperity would be tempered by the suavities of married life.

From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James