suave

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  1. adjective Smoothly agreeable and courteous.

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  • As she left the kitchen and went back for more dirty dishes, she passed a framed photo of Caitlin's husband and paused for a moment; Quisto was charming, suave, and in love with his wife as only a former ladies' man could be. —  Chapter1
  • Denzie Brandau was smooth, suave, your friendly politician. —  The Great California Game—Lovejoy—Jonathan Gash
  • New friends found him intelligent, suave, and deceptively gentle mannered. —  Three Roads to Alamo
  • And while Porter was indisputably suave, the ladies were not his primary interest. —  Listal promoted
  • This was the suave, sophisticated and handsome Obama surrounded by the beautiful rich and elitist intellectuals who worship him poking fun at those young people who do not fit this superficial society's definition of beautiful, suave, sophisticated or athletic. —  Latest Articles
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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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