(a.) Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Slipstream , her raw and honest memoir, she recounts how her debonair father, David, would kiss her on the lips and grope her, while her mother, Kit, a former ballerina, "thought that everything to do with sex was absolutely disgusting".
(2) Keen to make the most of the global interest the film has aroused, the city council on Friday unveiled a series of itineraries for tourists and locals keen to follow in the debonair steps of Jep Gambardella, The Great Beauty's protagonist.
(3) Here's the problem, Britain: these men all possess debonair charm, refined good looks, and the ability to deliver intelligent, nuanced performances.
(4) A wiry 57, he arrives for lunch at Bar Pitti on Sixth Avenue, New York City, looking debonair in a cashmere Canali sports jacket.
(5) It has become a deeply personal fight with her main opponent, the debonair MP and mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, from former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-wing Les Républicains party.
(6) Debonair and unflappable, former journalist Les Hinton served as Rupert Murdoch's consigliere for over a decade, smoothing the ruffled feathers of the rich and powerful whenever they were on the receiving end of stories published in News International's stable of titles.
(7) Craig was initially seen as a somewhat risky choice for Bond before his debut in Casino Royale in 2006, viewed by some as insufficiently debonair and arched-eyebrowed, even too blond.
(8) That bodes well for James Bond fans: work on a 23rd movie about Ian Fleming's debonair spy has been frozen since April while MGM, which owns the Bond franchise, sorts out its problems.
(9) A roguish and debonair art dealer, our hero has been described as an amoral Bertie Wooster with psychopathic tendencies.
(10) Depp, who only last week agreed to play Charlie Mortdecai in a film based on Kyril Bonfiglioli's books about the eccentric and debonair English art dealer, will once again portray the Mad Hatter in Hollywood's latest riff on the classic Lewis Carroll tale.
(11) There is a similar bifurcation in drama: while the film shows the delightfully homemade sound effects being created for a broadcast of Macbeth, the lighter end of theatre is represented by Eric Maschwitz, the debonair head of variety, seen urging a producer to make sure a music-hall act’s jokes are cleaned up (“It won’t get by for a moment, old boy”).
(12) It’s the only place I’ve kept going to for all the time I’ve lived here.” DEBONAIR is a DJ and hosts a bi-weekly show on NTS Radio .
(13) When Piano, who is a debonair 76, got the call late last summer in the back of a New York cab, his immediate reaction was an endearing, almost indignant, disbelief.
(14) Tall, immaculate and debonair into old age, Henry continued to work as a match-day host at White Hart Lane until 2006, when ill health forced him to give up his commitment to his beloved Spurs.
(15) Dastardly, debonair, dapper, devious, dignified and more than a little degenerate, the Lannister family has hit its stride.
(16) For my maiden voyage, I settled on a ride from London to Paris, offered on BlaBlaCar by a debonair Parisian named Jean K, who, according to reviews, was de confiance (trustworthy).
(17) Laura Wade-Gery could be a Barbara Taylor-Bradford heroine or a Jackie Collins boardroom badass: debonair, moneyed and connected as only a diplomat’s daughter could be, well-travelled, ambitious, successful – and about to become a mother at 50.
Foppish
Definition:
(a.) Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Who embody that classic British pop cult paradox: foppish violence.
(2) A quick graze of the internet will provide fan theories to feed any hunches you’ve long felt about the happy-go-lucky companionship of Timon and Pumbaa, and their effective adoption of baby Simba, in The Lion King – or indeed the foppish villainy of the same film’s Scar, an alpha lion who has never found a mate in the pride.
(3) But the one that really jumped out was of a chav-themed school disco: all these rosy-cheeked, foppish-looking public schoolkids dressed in baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits.
(4) Meanwhile, his trademark foppish hair and retro indie kid glasses have that perfect British nerdishness thing going on: one part Geography teacher, one part Dalston muso.
(5) His Vietnam war heroism was recast as cowardice by George W Bush’s allies in 2004, and Bush successfully portrayed Kerry as a foppish buffoon.
(6) Will you be checking in on Depp's bumbling, foppish clot?
(7) Beneath the foppish exterior, however – he always wore a waistcoat and a watch-chain – the spirit of a true radical was often trying to escape.
(8) No longer the foppish stereotype Brit, more high-minded Gary Cooper in Mr Deeds Goes to Town.
(9) Elsewhere, he captures a foppish Mick Jagger with Marianne Faithfull attending a banquet in Co Kildare as guests of Desmond Guinness.
(10) But while the Downton Effect benefits Cumberbatch and co, ex-Hollyoaks stars don't exactly fit the foppish British stereotype beloved of US casting directors.