suaveness

Definition of suavenessnext

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Noun
  • Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made an art form of falling apart with tragic intensity.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • If Stone is rage incarnate, RZA, as Hutch’s samurai-sword-wielding brother, is pure Zen suavity.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Her stage presence, fashion and gracefulness all stood out, said Billy Mitchell, the Apollo's in-house historian.
    Noelle Lilley, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Ca$ino, which feels like a difficult yet necessary transition out of The Melodic Blue and lacks that album’s easy gracefulness, may not yield an immediate answer.
    Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But the glory and gentility that had been the Pontchartrain was gone.
    Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
  • In modernizing and Americanizing the Charles Dickens novel, Alfonso Cuarón expunged many of Great Expectations’s subplots in favor of a 1998-friendly romantic drama that cemented Paltrow as an emblem of gentility.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • As for Saturday, the Earthquakes will test the patience, spacing and poise of a team that wants to own the ball.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Own your needs with poise and kindness.
    Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • By then, the photographers Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan were teaching at the school, along with Hazel Larsen Archer, who had overlapped with Rauschenberg in 1949 and captured his love of movement and of grace in a photograph of her own.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Give yourself grace during this process, says Lautman.
    Taylor Grothe, Parents, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Instead, plans to reopen the waterway will likely come through a ceasefire and diplomacy, possibly policed by an international force.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • One outcome — perhaps, a five-point plan While Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and others are actively pursuing diplomacy, Iran and Israel are not interested, and the United States appears baffled and unsteady.
    Daniel Kurtzer, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Complete with Portland charm, cobble stone pathways, farm-to-table delights, local boutiques, shops, galleries and much more, its inviting neighborhood feel will set the tone for your day ahead.
    Dontaira Terrell, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Wessels catches gleams to follow not only in magical tales but in twinkling memories, sparkling wordplay, the films of silver-screen star Veronica Lake, and his charm of a daughter, the inspiration of a half-dozen poems that take their titles from spells.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • There’s a quixotic gallantry to appealing to a saner conservative and looking ahead to a post-Trump American politics.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Queen Elizabeth later awarded Beaton the George's Cross, Britain’s highest civilian award for gallantry, for his role in saving her daughter’s life, and bestowed honors on Callender, as well as the other policemen and onlookers who intervened.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 2 Aug. 2025
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“Suaveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suaveness. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.

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