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
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 Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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
The two women were perfectly conscious of reciprocal dislike, but they smothered the feeling beneath conventional suavities.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
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
