Suavely

adv. [f. SUAVE a. + -LY².]

  1.  In a suave manner; with suavity.

1862.  Thornbury, Turner, I. 317. Mr. Judkins suavely waves his glass.

1873.  Black, Pr. Thule, xxii. ‘Oh, there is no use getting into an anger,’ said Mackenzie, suavely.

1902.  Hichens, Londoners, 33. ‘So glad to find you at home, dear Mrs. Verulam,’ the Duchess said suavely.

  2.  Agreeably, sweetly, gently.

1883.  Symonds, Ital. Byways, vi. 103. Low hills to right and left; suavely modelled heights in the far distance.

1887.  Anne Elliot, Old Man’s Favour, I. II. i. 204. Mrs. Hammond’s voice … fell suavely on her ear.

  So Suaveness, suavity.

1905.  W. E. B. Du Bois, Souls Black Folk, iii. 58. We cannot settle this problem by diplomacy and suaveness.