Another word for slick
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Adjective
So smooth and glassy as to offer insecure hold or footing
- slippery
- like or characterized by a slither
- Causing or tending to cause sliding or slipping:
- Tending to slip, as from one's grasp:
- Not trustworthy; elusive or tricky:
- Full of or displaying sexual desire:
- Sexually stimulating; salacious:
- Having a slippery or smooth quality:
Idioms:See also:Exhibiting or possessing skill and ease in performance
- Quick, light, or agile in movement or action; deft:
- Quick, clever, and acute in devising or understanding:
- Easily or effectively used; convenient or useful:
- Easy to manage or handle. Used of a ship.
- Readily accessible or convenient in location:
- Done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; easy:
- Working, acting, or done with ease and fluency:
- Arrived at or presented without due care, effort, or examination; superficial:
- Skillful in the use of the hands.
- Having mental skill or adroitness.
- Done with dexterity:
- Quick and skillful; adroit.
- Mentally quick and original; bright:
- Skilled at accomplishing things, especially with the hands:
- Crafty; cunning:
- Quick and skillful in body or mind; deft.
See also:Having or showing a clever awareness and resourcefulness in practical matters
- Well informed and perceptive; shrewd:
- Knowledgeable or proficient. Often used in combination:
- Practical understanding or shrewdness:
- Having the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; sagacious:
- Exhibiting common sense; prudent:
- Shrewd; crafty:
- Having or showing intelligence; bright.
- Canny and shrewd in dealings with others:
- Amusingly clever; witty:
- Having or showing a clever awareness or resourcefulness, especially in practical matters.
- Disposed to or marked by artful and cunning practices; tricky.
- Sharp; penetrating:
- Having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted.
- Possessing knowledge, information, or understanding:
- Showing clever awareness and resourcefulness; shrewd and worldly:
- Suggestive of secret or private knowledge:
- Careful and shrewd, especially where one's own interests are concerned.
- Cautious in spending money; frugal.
- Steady, restrained, and gentle.
- Wary; careful:
- Crafty; shrewd:
- Having or showing shrewdness and discernment, especially with respect to one's own concerns.
Characterized by ready but often insincere or superficial discourse
- Speaking or spoken in an artfully suave manner; ingratiating.
- Performed with a natural, offhand ease:
- Given to or characterized by fluency of speech or writing that often suggests insincerity, superficiality, or a lack of concern:
- Done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; easy:
- Working, acting, or done with ease and fluency:
- Arrived at or presented without due care, effort, or examination; superficial:
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Another word for slick
Modifier
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- Having a smooth, shiny, lustrous surface:
- Superficially and often speciously attractive; showy:
- A photographic print on smooth, shiny paper.
- Smooth and lustrous as if polished; glossy:
- In good health and having smooth or glossy hair, fur, or skin:
- Able to or designed to move efficiently through air or water; streamlined:
- Courteous and elegant; gracious and sophisticated.
- Causing or tending to cause sliding or slipping:
- Tending to slip, as from one's grasp:
- Not trustworthy; elusive or tricky:
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