suavities

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She was charmed by the spirit of the place, constrained by its suggestion of fair observances, high decencies, and social suavities.

From The Helpmate by Sinclair, May

Owen observed that Mrs. Waterlow, while maintaining all the suavities of intercourse, did not address Gwendolen as dearest.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

He did not attract the world of women by elaborate brutalities, or charm it by silly suavities.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

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