Suave
[swɑːv] or [swɑv]
Definition
(a.) Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.
Edited by Jacqueline
Definition
adj. pleasant: agreeable.—adv. Suāve′ly.—n. Suav′ity.
Checker: Shelia
Examples
- All these things do I now think over, adding, He had his faults, yet scarce ever was a finer nature; liberal, suave, impressible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yes, for a purpose, said Crispin boldly, evidently not to be duped by the suave greeting of Justinian. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The suave aunt could not reconcile them; the daughters froze at the view of their quarrels. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There came back to him one, a statuette about two feet high, a tall, slim, elegant figure from West Africa, in dark wood, glossy and suave. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- With perfect fine finger-tips of reality she would touch the reality in him, the suave, pure, untranslatable reality of his loins of darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The suave young Russian rose and took Halliday by the arm, leading him away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Pray sit down, Mr. Garth, continued the banker, in his suavest tone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Matt