suave

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  1. adjective Smoothly agreeable and courteous.

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  • Mata was suave, filled with old world charm, concentrating on Casey, playing her like a fish. —  Noble House
  • I expect the ladies to find me sexy, suave, keenly intelligent and a kitty they can't resist. —  Familiar Lullaby
  • While there they rented a Spanish castle on the ocean for a week. —  Grace Slick The Biography
  • Smooth, suave, aristocratic Anthony, who told Natalie all about his little brother -- how Spencer made a habit of using women, then throwing them away like so much garbage. —  A Man Of Secrets
  • I think we may have to send her to a good convalescent home away from the city once she's fit to move, and Mrs Stone -- by some miracle the sliver of steel I got out of her hadn't touched anything vital -- you'll have to keep a sharp eye on her, though ... " —  Heidelberg Wedding
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, agreeable, from Old French, from Latin suāvis, delightful, sweet; see swād- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French suave = Spanish Portuguese suave = Italian soave, from Latin suavis, orig. *suadvis = Greek ἡδύς, sweet, agreeable, = Anglo-Saxon swēte, English sweet: see sweet. Cf. suade, suasion, etc.
 

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