Noun: slickness slik-nus
- A kind of fluent easy superficiality
"the slickness of a high-pressure salesman";
- glibness
- A slippery smoothness
"he could feel the slickness of the tiller";
- slick, slipperiness, slip
- Dishonest and underhand behaviour
"The auditors uncovered financial slickness in the company's accounts";
- trickery, hocus-pocus, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery [informal], skulduggery, skullduggery, sculduggery [rare]
Type of: deceit, deception, misrepresentation, shallowness, smoothness, superficiality