Crossword-Solution: SUAVENESS 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Their politeness is unstrained, their suaveness congenital; they remind me of that New England type which for Western self-assertion substitutes a yielding graciousness of disposition.

They watched the head waiter, with his little black imperial and beady eyes, a miracle of suaveness, deftness, and light-footedness, one moment bowing before a newcomer, his face wreathed with smiles, the next storming with volubility absolutely indescribable at a tardy waiter, a moment later gravely discussing the wine list with a _bon viveur_, and offering confidential and wholly disinterested advice.

You see, he is a particularly obnoxious specimen of his race; all suaveness, treachery, and remorseless energy.

What with Eugene's fertility in suggesting new methods of advertising, his suaveness of approach and geniality in laying before the most recalcitrant his very desirable schemes, his ability to get ideas and suggestions out of his men in conference, he was really in no danger of not being able to hold his own, and indeed was destined to make a rather remarkable showing.

His voice and manner were suaveness itself; nevertheless, the abbé was conscious that his words implied something very like a threat.