| NOUN | communication | slickness, trickery, hocus-pocus, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery | verbal / verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way |
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| attribute | slickness, glibness | a kind of fluent easy superficiality | |
| attribute | slickness, slick, slipperiness, slip | a slippery smoothness |
| Meaning | verbal / verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way. | |
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| Synonyms | trickery, hocus-pocus, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery | |
| Broader | misrepresentation, deceit, deception | A misleading falsehood |
| Spanish | cachondeo, mistificación, tejemaneje, trampa, trapicheo | |
| Catalan | enredada, mistificació, parany, trampa | |
| Adjectives | slick | marked by skill in deception |
| Meaning | A kind of fluent easy superficiality. | |
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| Synonym | glibness | |
| Broader | superficiality, shallowness | lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling |
| Spanish | desparpajo, labia, marrullería | |
| Adjectives | slick | marked by skill in deception |
| slick | having only superficial plausibility | |
| Meaning | A slippery smoothness. | |
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| Example | "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" | |
| Synonyms | slick, slipperiness, slip | |
| Broader | smoothness | A texture without roughness |
| Spanish | lustre, suavidad, viscosidad | |
| Adjectives | slick | having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light |
| slick | made slick by e.g. ice or grease | |
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