slickness meaning

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slickness (noun): verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.

slickness has 3 meanings in this dictionary.

slickness as a noun

  1. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

    Synonyms: trickery, hocus-pocus, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery

    Type of: misrepresentation

    Related forms: slick

  2. a kind of fluent easy superficiality
    • the glibness of a high-pressure salesman

    Synonyms: glibness

    Type of: superficiality

    Related forms: slick

  3. a slippery smoothness
    • he could feel the slickness of the tiller

    Synonyms: slick, slipperiness, slip

    Type of: smoothness

    Related forms: slick

Scrabble score: 15 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with SL · words ending in SS · 9-letter words

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