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Debonair meaning
Gracious, courteous. | Suave, urbane and sophisticated. | Charming, confident, and carefully dressed.
Example sentences (19)
And yes, Kate is understandably struggling with her simmering attraction to David Gyasi's unsettlingly debonair British foreign secretary Austin Dennison.
A superb organizer, Cortez immediately reached out to other teammates here and abroad and talked to Dante Silverio, the team’s debonair team owner and eventual coach.
In each, he introduces us to a character who might be seen as a villain to outsiders, but who has a debonair charm that can't help but compel us as they chase down the American Dream at all costs.
The best-known of these–eight low-budget Roger Corman movies made between 1960-1964 and usually starring the debonair, diabolical –are entertaining but can't recreate Poe's macabre, paranoid, and generally unwholesome sensibility.
The uber-popular romantic comedy helped expand Murphy beyond comedy-first roles and action films, allowing him to flourish in new Hollywood territory as a debonair ladies man.
You were always suave, debonair, calm,smiling, collected, and magisterial.
He also reportedly seduced a string of well-connected women and men, helped no doubt by his good looks, virtuoso performances and debonair charm.
In the frame, flanking Felicity Kendal and Jaffery, resplendent respectively in gown and sari, were two very swish gentlemen: in a sherwani, and Soumitra Chatterjee in a bandhgala, competing equally on the dapper-and-debonair stakes.
Debonair, GiGi FM, Hunee, Joy Orbison and Midland are just a few of the DJs set to play over the course of this 11-hour marathon.
Of course, career criminals who attempt to go straight in movies and TV series never succeed in their efforts, and Jett is soon drawn back into the underworld, thanks to her connection with debonair crime boss Charlie Baudelaire (Giancarlo Esposito).
Thanks to television and film appearances, Bergen and his dummy sidekicks — in addition to an intellectually inept Snerd, Bergen worked with the debonair Charlie McCarthy — remained well-known in the 1960s and '70s.
Easily recognisable among them was the durable Chief Sam Ogbemudia, debonair Mike Oghiadome (deputy governor), gangling Samson Ekhabafe (now late) and feisty Aguele (state chairman).
Our history is richer, deeper, more introspective, more valiant, and more debonair than the pithy blurbs included on posters hung in your child’s school.
Robin Leach, the debonair TV host who regaled audiences with talk of “champagne wishes and caviar dreams,” has died, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In contrast to George Reeves' intellectual Clark Kent, Reeve's version is much more of an awkward fumbler and bungler, although Reeve is also an especially athletic, dashing and debonair Superman.
Pearson (1946:257) Aynesworth was himself "debonair and stylish", and Alexander, who played Jack Worthing, "demure".
Priestley, p. 25 Lord Esher wrote that Edward was "kind and debonair and not undignified – but too human".
She described Michael Keaton as showing "appropriate earnestness", Danny DeVito as "conveying verve", Christopher Walken as "wonderfully debonair", Michelle Pfeiffer as "captivating..
The only way he was able to get management to agree to a full season was to hire The Great Sebastian, "the debonair King of the Air" and world-class trapeze artist, as the star of the show.