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English Dictionary: slickness by the DICT Development Group
2 results for slickness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slickness
n
  1. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
    Synonym(s): trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
  2. a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman"
    Synonym(s): glibness, slickness
  3. a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller"
    Synonym(s): slickness, slick, slipperiness, slip
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slickness \Slick"ness\, n.
      The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.
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