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What does debonair mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word debonair? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Gracious, courteous.
  2. Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
  3. (especially of men) Charming, confident, and carefully dressed.
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Dressed in a beige, linen Ermenegildo Zegna suit, he was every bit the suave, debonair businessman.
Less rugged and robust than debonair and sophisticated, he attracted modern, independent women who appreciated his flair.
Marc McSharry and Barry Duignan play the debonair students, Michael Roper the money-chasing, carpet-bagging uncle.
Grant projects a steady threat of violence, as though he could go over the edge from debonair to deadly at any moment.
Seiffert's free verse is not as good as her debonair balladry, nor are the poems of Elijah Hay equal to those of Emanuel Morgan or Anne Knish.
But his would-be debonair, self-satisfied yet insecure dotard could not be more appropriately laughable or pitiful.

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