Slickness

//ˈslɪknɪs// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being slick.

    "The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future."

  2. 2
    a slippery smoothness wordnet
  3. 3
    a kind of fluent easy superficiality wordnet
  4. 4
    verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way wordnet

Synonyms

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lubricityartfulnesscanninesscommand of languagecraftcunning

Example

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"Tom underestimated the slickness and drove into the ditch."

Etymology

From slick + -ness.

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