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suavesuave /swɑːv/ adjective   suaveOrigin: 1500-1600 French ‘pleasant, sweet’, from Latin suavis - He was tall and suave, careful in dress, careful in behaviour.
- Reginald was suave, handsome and charming.
- A suave and sophisticated style reminiscent of matinee idols if the thirties.
- All the waiters were suave and deferential, but her waiter had an edge.
- Cool, suave, sophisticated - in control of her own life.
- Miguel lit a cigarette with a suave mannerism that had been well rehearsed.
- The curé was a suave man, dark, with an impassive long face, a thin unsmiling mouth.
- The sketches paired macho athletes with their more urbane, suave counterparts.
- They were led by a suave and brilliant student called Granville Sharpe-Pattison.
polite, confident, and relaxed, but in an insincere way► smooth someone who is smooth , especially a man, has good manners and a relaxed, confident way of talking to people, but in a way that you do not completely trust: · Smooth and charming, Francis was the kind of man your mother would love you to marry.· Don't let his smooth manner fool you - he's just after your money. ► suave very polite, pleasant and stylish, especially in a way that is intended to be attractive to women: · Reginald was suave, handsome and charming.· He was tall and suave, careful in dress, careful in behaviour. someone who is suave is polite, confident, and relaxed, sometimes in an insincere way SYN smooth:  a suave and sophisticated gentleman—suavely adverb—suavity, suaveness noun [uncountable] |