suave
adjective
1.
2.
smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
- “he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage”
- “the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject”
- “the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error”
- “affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability” Ezra Pound
Origin
From Middle English suave, borrowed from Latin suāvis (“sweet, pleasant”); doublet of sweet. First attested in the early 15th century.
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