How to Use debonair in a Sentence
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Ian is just smooth and debonair, and he’s still got those groovy hips.
—New York Times, 8 June 2022
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His biggest fan, though, might be the debonair actor George Hamilton.
—airmail.news, 30 Nov. 2024
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His biggest fan, though, might be the debonair actor George Hamilton.
—airmail.news, 30 Nov. 2024
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Manilow asked the crowd of the debonair record executive who helped shepherd him to stardom.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2025
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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
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But there's something even dreamier and more debonair about the vermin version of Sherlock.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 June 2024
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David, meanwhile, went classic and debonair—his fashion M.O.—in a deep navy suit, complete with a white button-up, tie, and leather loafers.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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But as the 2000s hit Raymond would nearly immediately opt for suits and debonair menswear items.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 14 Oct. 2024
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But as the 2000s hit Raymond would nearly immediately opt for suits and debonair menswear items.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 14 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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Count Orlok, played by Max Schreck, is reclusive and antisocial, not a courtly debonair.
—Roy Schwartz, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Massa is a debonair man of fifty-two, known as a canny political operator.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Likewise, Ritchie revels in his characters’ debonair nonchalance while meting out all manner of savagery.
—Jake Coyle, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2024
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Whether selling wine or simply drinking it, Mr. Spurrier was a debonair figure, hair perfectly coifed, a handkerchief peeking out just so from his jacket pocket.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
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Its communist agents are charming and almost debonair, contrary to previous depictions of screaming, hard-faced Soviet soldiers.
—Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
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The debonair heir to the 007 mantle tones down Connery's brutality and cocks an amused eyebrow at the international-man-of-mystery proceedings — usually accompanied by a saucy double entendre.
—Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 29 May 2024
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