Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun slickness

3 senses of slickness

Sense 1
trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery -- (verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way)
       => misrepresentation, deceit, deception -- (a misleading falsehood)

Sense 2
glibness, slickness -- (a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman")
       => superficiality, shallowness -- (lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling)

Sense 3
slickness, slick, slipperiness, slip -- (a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller")
       => smoothness -- (a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch; "admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs"; "some artists prefer the smoothness of a board")

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