Slickness \Slick"ness\, n.
The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
slickness
n 1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you
in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, hanky
panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery]
2: a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a
high-pressure salesman" [syn: glibness]
3: a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the
tiller" [syn: slick, slipperiness, slip]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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