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Recent Examples of suavity
Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made an art form of falling apart with tragic intensity.
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Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
If Stone is rage incarnate, RZA, as Hutch’s samurai-sword-wielding brother, is pure Zen suavity.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
If Stone is rage incarnate, RZA, as Hutch’s samurai-sword-wielding brother, is pure Zen suavity.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suavity
Noun
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Her stage presence, fashion and gracefulness all stood out, said Billy Mitchell, the Apollo's in-house historian.—
Noelle Lilley,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Ca$ino, which feels like a difficult yet necessary transition out of The Melodic Blue and lacks that album’s easy gracefulness, may not yield an immediate answer.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But the glory and gentility that had been the Pontchartrain was gone.—
Rick Bragg,
Southern Living,
15 Mar. 2026
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In modernizing and Americanizing the Charles Dickens novel, Alfonso Cuarón expunged many of Great Expectations’s subplots in favor of a 1998-friendly romantic drama that cemented Paltrow as an emblem of gentility.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
25 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Barnes stood with dancerly poise in a crisp white shirt, a black tie, and cushy black sneakers.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Footwear with impeccable manners and a very special kind of poise is grown-up in the best sense of the word.—
Alex Sales,
Glamour,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There’s a quixotic gallantry to appealing to a saner conservative and looking ahead to a post-Trump American politics.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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Queen Elizabeth later awarded Beaton the George's Cross, Britain’s highest civilian award for gallantry, for his role in saving her daughter’s life, and bestowed honors on Callender, as well as the other policemen and onlookers who intervened.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The light that falls from the left, through half-open windows, onto Vermeer’s walls, some of them bare, testifies not so much to an overcast Dutch day as to a suffusion of grace.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Luna is in your sign, boosting your intuition with lunar grace.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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We’re not used to seeing this sort of voice set free in New Orleans, and that fact is part of Lemann’s considerable charms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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Downtown Landrum has plenty of small-town charm.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The latest launches from the Choe Hyon add to a recent run of weapons tests as North Korea pushes to expand its nuclear-capable forces targeting rival South Korea amid worsening ties and a prolonged freeze in diplomacy.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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After quietly entering the country, Johnson goes to the ‘kill zone’ near Zaporizhzhia, where drones, artillery and warfare replace the diplomacy and political rhetoric the former journalist and ex-Conservative Party leader is used to doing.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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My lack of tact and legibility is divined.—
Morgan Parker,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Nevertheless, asking for your money back after a long period requires some tact, etiquette pros say.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Suavity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suavity. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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