How to Use debonair in a Sentence

debonair

adjective
  • Weirdly debonair, for a teenager.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Manilow asked the crowd of the debonair record executive who helped shepherd him to stardom.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2025
  • His biggest fan, though, might be the debonair actor George Hamilton.
    — airmail.news, 30 Nov. 2024
  • That tone deafness aside, Usher knows how to command a stage and leave a debonair impression.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But there's something even dreamier and more debonair about the vermin version of Sherlock.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 June 2024
  • Rickman's agent was flooded with offers, beseeching the actor to play more debonair ne'er-do-wells.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 May 2023
  • Massa is a debonair man of fifty-two, known as a canny political operator.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Amongst the most stunning and debonair guests, a few of our favorite looks so far were served by actress Jodie Turner-Smith.
    — Greg Emmanuel, Essence, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Brody has walked the runway for Prada and has a debonair penchant for wearing large glittering brooches on his tuxedo lapel on red carpets.
    — Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Who can play this debonair, rich, handsome billionaire who walks in, who is an accelerant and pushes everyone toward their truth?
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Elevate your slip-on style with this pair of dressy mules, which feature debonair pom-poms and pointed toes for a sophisticated take on the trendy footwear style but still feels unique.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Count Orlok, played by Max Schreck, is reclusive and antisocial, not a courtly debonair.
    — Roy Schwartz, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
  • But as the 2000s hit Raymond would nearly immediately opt for suits and debonair menswear items.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Likewise, Ritchie revels in his characters’ debonair nonchalance while meting out all manner of savagery.
    — Jake Coyle, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Jordan was joined on stage by co-star Adria Arjona, who plays an insurance investigator smart enough to go toe to toe with the debonair art thief.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Sporting a posh accent and square jaw, Moore, who died Tuesday at age 89, looked the part of a movie star and a debonair international spy.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2017
  • Bow ties always look debonair á la James Bond, but Southern men can wear them in every color and pattern under the sun for a little extra flair.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 8 June 2018
  • Separately, Eddie Murphy who is depicted as a womanizer for most of the film is perhaps the most debonair man.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The role captured all of his ironic charm and misanthropic appeal within the kind of debonair character that the perennial everyman had never quite shown us before.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Hackman's dirty, racist cop, with all his flaws, is contrasted with a debonair and elusive drug kingpin, played by Spanish actor Fernando Rey.
    — Adam Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • He's known for his dapper and debonair bearing, his free-wheeling pansexuality, and because he's played by Berry, his hilarious voice.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Fleming’s debonair absurdist saga of gangsters and hair’s-breadth escapes was replaced by a broad fairy tale featuring a kidnapper called the Child Catcher.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 July 2024
  • The more debonair gentlemen, depending on the occasion, may don exotics like the Eldredge, Trinity or Cape knots.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2014
  • Clay was very much a kind of Upper East Side debonair man-about-town, living in a big duplex, and Milton was very much downtown, an artist in turtlenecks and very long, wild hair.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Caine, who considers Wick his comrade even as he’s assigned to kill him, is as fierce as Wick, and Yen, beneath his aviator sunglasses, gives him a debonair impishness.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • New this year, the convertible version of the supercar wasn’t as prominent as coupes in the longstanding film series in which Sean Connery portrayed the debonair protagonist spy.
    — James Raia, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The video stars the London rapper as an impossibly debonair butler who seduces his boss before things take a rather ugly turn (with J Balvin popping up in the most unexpected of places).
    — Charu Sinha, Vulture, 30 July 2021
  • Riquelme Vega, a major Chilean drug importer; and Raffaele Imperiale, a debonair Italian linked to the Camorra.
    — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Pierce Brosnan brought a suave, debonair approach, while Daniel Craig introduced a gritty realism and vulnerability to Bond.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • On the top floor, Beaujard’s bedroom and the guest room feel breezy and debonair, in pale shades of white and yellow with accents of ebony and chocolate, evoking both the formal side of late 19th-century French design and fanciful postwar modernism.
    — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021

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