slickness

Definitions of slickness
  1. noun
    a slippery smoothness
    “he could feel the slickness of the tiller”
    synonyms: slick, slip, slipperiness
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    type of:
    smoothness
    a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch
  2. noun
    a kind of fluent easy superficiality
    synonyms: glibness
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    type of:
    shallowness, superficiality
    lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
  3. noun
    verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
    synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, trickery
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    type of:
    deceit, deception, misrepresentation
    a misleading falsehood
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