noun
1. a kind of fluent easy superficiality
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the glibness of a high-pressure salesman
• Syn: ↑glibness
• Hypernyms: ↑superficiality, ↑shallowness
2. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
• Syn: ↑trickery, ↑hocus-pocus, ↑hanky panky, ↑jiggery-pokery, ↑skulduggery, ↑skullduggery
• Hypernyms: ↑misrepresentation, ↑deceit, ↑deception
3. a slippery smoothness
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he could feel the slickness of the tiller
• Syn: ↑slick, ↑slipperiness, ↑slip
• Derivationally related forms: ↑slippy (for: ↑slip), ↑slippery (for: ↑slipperiness), ↑slick (for: ↑slick), ↑slick
• Hypernyms: ↑smoothness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.