debonair
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Though he bridled against the genteel expectations of his upbringing, he was popular and effortlessly debonair.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
“It was a very debonair thing to do.”
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025
This lack of social synchrony can land even the most debonair droid in the “uncanny valley.”
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2024
On a trip to Chicago in 1893, short, round fireball Ida Wells got to know tall, debonair, easygoing Ferdinand Barnett as they worked together on a pamphlet calling out racial inequities.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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