slickness

slickness

noun

Definition of SLICKNESS

skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means <we were both impressed and outraged by the expert slickness with which the swindler fooled us>

Synonyms artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, subtlety, wiliness

Related Words calculation, care, design; savvy, sharpness, shrewdness; cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness; ease, facility, finesse; deceitfulness, duplicity, shiftiness, underhandedness