单词 | slickness |
释义 | slickness (once / 76254 pages) n WORD FAMILY slick: slicked, slicker, slickest, slicking, slickly, slickness, slicks+/slicker: slickers USAGE EXAMPLESDe Niro in an interview pretty evidently would rather be doing something else — an endearingly honest turn in this age of actor slickness and glad-handing. Los Angeles Times(Dec 02, 2016) Some might criticize this self-awareness, because slickness is a mark, to some audiences, of selling out. Washington Post(Oct 31, 2016) For all his slickness, Bill Clinton was as ideological a president as Ronald Reagan. Time(Oct 21, 2016) 1n a slippery smoothness he could feel the slickness of the tiller Syn|Hyper slick, slip, slipperiness smoothness a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch 2n a kind of fluent easy superficiality Syn|Hyper glibness shallowness, superficiality lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling 3n verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way Syn|Hyper hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, trickery deceit, deception, misrepresentation a misleading falsehood |
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