Hypertext Webster Gateway: "slickness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slickness \Slick"ness\, n.
The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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