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Meanings of slickness in English

Portuguese
artifício
Catalan
parany
Spanish
trampa

Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way.

      artifício
      Spanish
      suavidad

      A slippery smoothness.

            suavidad

            A kind of fluent easy superficiality.

                  Usage of slickness in English
                  1
                  And it's the kind of slickness of, that I'm just suspicious of.
                  The new yorker
                  2
                  Distracted, he moved by instinct, parting her and stroking through her slickness.
                  Eve of darkness
                  3
                  First the martial music, and then the buttery slickness of the announcer.
                  Foundation and Empire
                  4
                  We took turns wiping some of the sweat and slickness from us.
                  The Hyperion Cantos
                  5
                  But it was different this time: the cold slickness of latex was gone.
                  The blackstone chronicles
                  6
                  The warm, oily water gave her smooth skin a delicious slickness.
                  Bundori
                  7
                  But it often feels as if Shaw himself has been seduced by slickness.
                  The Guardian
                  8
                  The latter is a rare brush with celebrity slickness and self-congratulation.
                  The Guardian
                  9
                  More buffing and the house took on a high shine, a slippery slickness.
                  Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
                  10
                  Rushing in is a tidal wave of slickness, glass and metal.
                  The Irish Times
                  11
                  His strong fingers were rubbing between her legs, sliding through the slickness there.
                  Eve of darkness
                  12
                  The slickness of the production works against the grain of such shaggy-dog speculative fiction.
                  Reuters
                  13
                  The slickness down below felt like hot syrup surrounding a spasming bud of pleasure.
                  The viking takes a knight
                  14
                  There was no indication of anything to account for the slickness of the door.
                  Way Station
                  15
                  The slickness of his cross-shaped burn scar met my fingertips.
                  The Killing Dance
                  16
                  I loved the metal slide of his teeth, the molten slickness of his lips.
                  Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
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                  Slickness through the time