debonair
adjective
courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm.
debonaire,
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a variation of
debonair.
Example Sentences
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In the process, he became a familiar sight on TV screens on both sides of the Channel and beyond – tall, sleek and debonaire, generally flanked by an EU flag and typically inscrutable.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
Tiny in stature and nervous, the bleak King contrasts as strangely with his tall, debonaire, swashbuckling son as with the burly, curt Dictator.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the debonaire dare-deviltry of Old Jerry’s defiance rather than its unexpectedness which had proved its greatest sensation.
From Once to Every Man by Anton Otto Fischer
Cowley, there, Whose active fancy debonaire Drew straws like amber—foul to fair.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
And after a while Renoux appeared, bland, debonaire, evidently much pleased with whatever he had been doing.
From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
