slickness

2 definitions found

slickness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Slickness \Slick"ness\, n.
     The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.
     [1913 Webster]

slickness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  slickness
      n 1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you
           in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness,
           hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery,
           skullduggery]
      2: a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a
         high-pressure salesman" [syn: glibness, slickness]
      3: a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the
         tiller" [syn: slickness, slick, slipperiness, slip]