- plural of suavity.
suavities
Example Sentences
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Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 James Huneker
Neither the suavities of Carteret nor the intrigues of Walpole had any chance against the set opposition which met them.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift
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 May Sinclair
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
