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- adjective
comparative form ofsuave : moresuave
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Examples
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There's the slightly suaver side of Max Greger on the 4-song EP available at Yayo Salva Musical...followed by oom-pah Max backing a yodelin' Master mistress?
Archive 2009-05-01 baikinange 2009
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He held his arms a little away from his body—as if the suit was the pelt of some suaver animal, recently slain and imperfectly cured, so that the bloody rawness of it made his skin crawl.
Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008
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He held his arms a little away from his body—as if the suit was the pelt of some suaver animal, recently slain and imperfectly cured, so that the bloody rawness of it made his skin crawl.
Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008
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He held his arms a little away from his body—as if the suit was the pelt of some suaver animal, recently slain and imperfectly cured, so that the bloody rawness of it made his skin crawl.
Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008
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But still, it seemed all these Eastern prep school graduates there who were -- seemed somehow -- it -- to my naive eye, to be suaver and more cultured.
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Like Mr. Pilkington, he had never before come into contact with Mr. Goble as stage-director, and, accustomed to the suaver methods of his native land, he was finding the experience trying.
Jill the Reckless 1928
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Dušan Popović, there would have been in Zagreb a very much suaver atmosphere.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917
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But not a bit of it, Andrew Cameron was suaver than ever.
Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912
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"And what," inquired the Vicar with an even suaver irony, "_can_ you do?"
The Three Sisters May Sinclair 1904
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Indeed I had rather enjoyed the whole affair, though I felt that my manner was gradually marking me as one apart from the natives; made conscious I was of a more finished, a suaver formality in myself -- the Mrs. Ballard I had met came at length to be by way of tapping me coquettishly with her tambourine in our lighter moments.
Ruggles of Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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