smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound
Someone who is suave is charming, polite, and elegant, but may be insincere. He is a suave, cool and cultured man. + suavely suave·ly the skills needed to deal suavely with a company's senior managers. someone who is suave is polite, confident, and relaxed, sometimes in an insincere way (from suavis)