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Examples of suave in a Sentence
- I am pleased, also, to think I pulled it off. I didn't do anything too stupid or gauche, and even though it was my first time at a spa, I managed to bluff my way through in a suitably suave, urbane fashion without any embarrassing social gaffes. —Will Ferguson, Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw, 2004
- When she had been Miss Tampa, a suave major leaguer had courted her till she found out he was married, with children. —Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated, 19 Mar. 2001
- Bobby gets a lot of tough love at home. As suave and polite as he seems to outsiders, he has "two personalities," says his stepmother Wille. "He's a con artist." His parents kicked him out of the house in August, trying to scare him after he came home drunk at 5 a. m. —Stacy Perman, Time, 25 Oct. 1999
a suave and sophisticated businessman
the suave gentleman was a great favorite of the elegant ladies who attended parties at the embassy
Recent Examples of suave from the Web
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Big Technicolor gestures registered with a punch, the strings conjured up a warm, suave texture, and there were piercingly eloquent solo turns by (among others) oboist Eugene Izotov and trumpeter Mark Inouye.
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The bar, with its suave whiskey mezzanine, is richly atmospheric, too.
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Picture this: a dark alley where the suave evil dude has cornered a helpless plot point.
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The band has moved toward a polished and suave sound.
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Speaking of drinks, the bar whipped up a very suave martini and quite a muscular old fashioned.
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Jackie Treehorn’s House Jared Cowan Of all the locations featured in The Big Lebowski, there’s perhaps none more spectacular than the home of suave adult film producer, Jackie Treehorn (Ben Gazzara).
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And no one besides her courtly older boyfriend Orlando (sophisticated and suave Francisco Reyes) understands the young singer-waitress.
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Yet beneath it, Nalin Kohli, a suave lawyer flown in from Delhi by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which runs India’s national government, is giving a stump speech in Hindi.
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Origin and Etymology of suave
First Known Use: 1831
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearsuave Synonyms
Synonyms
Near Antonyms
awkward, clumsy, gauche, graceless, stiff, stilted, uncomfortable, uneasy, ungraceful, wooden;
hick, parochial, provincial, rough-hewn, rustic (also rustical);
uncivilized, uncultured, unrefined;
Related Words
cavalier, glib, slick, unctuous;
civilized, couth, cultivated, cultured, genteel, graceful, gracious, poised, polished, refined, well-bred;
cosmopolitan, metropolitan, smart, worldly-wise;
assured, calm, collected, composed, confident, cool, placid, secure, self-assured, self-confident, self-possessed, serene, tranquil, undisturbed, unperturbed;
Synonym Discussion of suave
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- a suave public relations coordinator
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- an urbane traveler
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- a diplomatic negotiator
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- a bland master of ceremonies
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- a smooth salesman
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- a cunningly politic manager
SUAVE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of suave for English Language Learners
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: behaving in a relaxed, confident, and pleasant way in social situations
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