Word Study
slickness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun slickness has 3 senses
- slickness(n = noun.communication) hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, trickery - verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way; Array is a kind of deceit, deception, misrepresentation
- slickness(n = noun.attribute) glibness - a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman" is a kind of shallowness, superficiality
- slickness(n = noun.attribute) slick, slip, slipperiness - a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" is a kind of smoothness
Derived form adjective slick4
Derived forms adjective slick4, adjective slick2
Derived forms adjective slick3, adjective slick1
CIDE DICTIONARY
slickness, n.
The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness. [1913 Webster]
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