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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
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            Examples for "slip"
            Examples for "slip"
            1
            A year ago, however, that name started to slip away from her.
            Blind willow, sleeping woman
            2
            Nikki almost let slip the truth and said, For the moral support.
            Frozen Heat
            3
            He asked her to write her question on a slip of paper.
            The new yorker
            4
            Well I hope they choose to let slip a little more today.
            The Neutronium Alchemist
            5
            Think I'll just slip in there and tell Marion the good news.
            The ginger man
            1
            But we're very taken with these slick new cases from Pong Ireland.
            The Irish Times
            2
            In many cases, the slick compounded factors that already threatened the environment.
            Reuters
            3
            A slick Wexford side claimed victory in blustery conditions at Birr yesterday.
            The Irish Times
            4
            The cold was expected to last another day, keeping road surfaces slick.
            Reuters
            5
            The community centre building is slick, marked with patches of the past.
            The Irish Times
            1
            He was not ready for the power and slipperiness of the tooth.
            Servant of a dark god
            2
            Such is the slipperiness of the surface, it's an almost futile effort.
            News.com.au
            3
            I did not leave Mr. Thornton's till ten, because of the slipperiness.
            A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
            4
            The trouble with the term new economy is its McLuhanesque slipperiness.
            Wired
            5
            This slipperiness, and a 146lb weight reduction, help trim fuel consumption rather significantly.
            BBC

            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