suavities
- plural of suavity.
Example Sentences
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Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even Mrs. Dyckman was afraid of Mrs. Abby, who lacked the suavities of Wotton.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
He was an educated, cultivated man, accustomed to the luxuries and full of the suavities of civilized life.
From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry
Over Charity's shoulder and through the spray of the goura on her hat he saw Kedzie sharp and stark, her suavities of line and the milk-smooth fabric of her envelope.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
Neither the suavities of Carteret nor the intrigues of Walpole had any chance against the set opposition which met them.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Swift, Jonathan
