Suaver

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? ❋ Baikinange (2009)

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. ❋ Chris Cleave (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2002)

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. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Dušan Popović, there would have been in Zagreb a very much suaver atmosphere. ❋ Henry Baerlein (1917)

But not a bit of it, Andrew Cameron was suaver than ever. ❋ Lucy Maud (1912)

"And what," inquired the Vicar with an even suaver irony, "_can_ you do?" ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

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. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

The tempest had doubtless frightened them away to the suaver southland, from which they did not return until the following spring. ❋ Unknown (1896)

He had never excelled in the suaver virtues, and now the whole of the time he spent at home was devoted to vociferous railing at capitalists, priests, and women, his mother and sister serving for illustrations of the vices prevalent in the last-mentioned class. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

"And yet honour and life are of some importance at your age," replied the abbe, visibly irritated, but feigning a suaver manner than ever. ❋ George Sand (1840)

But if Drake felt most comfortable embracing his inner-Steve Urkel (the MC called "Fear" his "favorite song," and delivered a stripped-down "Lust For Life" like a beat poet seeking transcendence), the largely female audience preferred when he channeled the far-suaver Stefan Urquelle. ❋ Andy Downing (2010)

Before she opened her mouth, we were all getting off on feeling superior by thinking how much above her (smarter, prettier, cooler, suaver) we were (not the healthiest way to feel better about oneself, but nevertheless a nearly universal practice). ❋ Unknown (2009)