slickness
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slick
(slĭk)adj. slick·er, slick·est
1. Smooth, glossy, and slippery: sidewalks slick with ice.
2. Deftly executed; adroit: "A jockey occasionally won a four-mile heat with a slick maneuver" (John Eisenberg).
3. Confident and effortlessly effective, especially in being persuasive: a slick political insider.
4. Superficially attractive or plausible but lacking depth or soundness: a slick writing style.
5. Slang Excellent; wonderful.
n.
1. A smooth or slippery surface or area.
2.
a. A floating film of oil.
b. A trail of floating material: a garbage slick.
3. An implement used to make a surface slick, especially a chisel used for smoothing and polishing.
4. Informal A magazine, usually of large popular readership, printed on high-quality glossy paper.
5. A smooth, treadless tire, often used for racing.
6. Slang An unarmed military aircraft, especially a helicopter.
tr.v. slicked, slick·ing, slicks
1. To make smooth, glossy, or oily.
2. Informal To make neat, trim, or tidy: slicked themselves up for the camera.
[Middle English slike, from Old English *slice; see lei- in Indo-European roots. V., Middle English sliken, from Late Old English -slīcian, -slȳcian (in nīgslȳcod, freshly smoothed).]
slick′ly adv.
slick′ness n.
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| Noun | 1. |  slickness - verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way |
| 2. | slickness - a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman" shallowness, superficiality - lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | |
| 3. |  slickness - 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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Translations
ذكاءٌ ماكِر
zchytralost
dygtighed
kænska
kurnazlık
slickness
[ˈslɪknɪs] NCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
slickness
[ˈslɪknɪs] n (= sophistication, skill) → style m brillant (= persuasiveness) → façons fpl mielleuses
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
slickness
n
(often pej: = cleverness) → Gewieftheit f (inf), → Cleverness f (inf); (of performance, style, writing) → Glattheit f; we were impressed by the slickness with which he answered → wir waren davon beeindruckt, wie glatt er antwortete
(of appearance) → geschniegeltes Aussehen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
slick1
(slik) adjective clever especially in a sly or dishonest way; smart. That was a very slick move!
ˈslickly adverbˈslickness noun
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