If only for his debonnaire indifference, they knew him for a "bad man" such as none of them might ever hope to be.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
All his kindness and care for her comfort brought a thrill of gladness to the girl's heart, and some of the old debonnaire, half-defiant light back to her eyes, as she replied, while rising from her chair, in obedience to a gesture of playful authority from Clarence, "Will I accept a scolding and go to bed, that means."
"Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter"
Lawrence L. Lynch
His natural lines were all upward curves, his smile most ingratiating, his eye so frank, even his trick of rubbing his clean, well-feel, English-looking hands, had something about it coaxing and debonnaire, something that actually decoyed you into trusting your money into hands so prepossessing.
"The Caxtons, Part 2"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton