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fast-talking

verb

present participle of fast-talk
1
as in wheedling

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as in bamboozling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fast-talking
  1. wheedling
  2. bamboozling
  3. cajoling
  4. double-crossing
  5. coaxing
  6. betraying
  7. convincing
  8. tricking
Verb
  • In a bid to rekindle the couple’s honeymoon phase, Yasmin troubleshoots by wheedling a chief executive role for him at payment processing company Tender (run by Max Minghella‘s inscrutable puppet-master Whitney Halberstram), and throwing her husband a lavish costume party for his 40th birthday.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 18 Jan. 2026
Definition of wheedling
Verb
  • But if Rodgers and Newton are right about fake vaccination cards being a thing around the NFL at the time, there was apparently much bamboozling being done by a number of people.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • His serve is monstrous; his forehand is potent; his backhand slice is bamboozling.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 1 July 2026
Definition of bamboozling
Verb
  • In the clip, Bottomley’s character can be seen cajoling Howells’ Taylor into having a drink and letting loose at a house party.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Someone there has to be gobbier and start cajoling players into their proper positions.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of cajoling
Verb
  • Now and then, the series jumps ahead about 60 years, where Blethyn’s Emma, now an incredibly wealthy and powerful department-store mogul, is dealing with double-crossing relatives and an excess of shag carpeting.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2026
Definition of double-crossing
Verb
  • Energy from the sun helps reactions between those blocks along, coaxing them to form polymers, or longer chains of molecules.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Some analysts argue that the Obama administration set a hopeful precedent on AI cooperation by coaxing China to join the Paris Climate Agreement in 2016.
    — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of coaxing
Verb
  • Depending on the balance between the reward for staying silent (cooperating) and betrayal, the game stabilizes with everyone betraying everyone.
    — Chris Lee, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
  • If some umpires have treated Vitello differently than other managers, then that’s a poor reflection on them for betraying their impartiality.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of betraying
Verb
  • The clues are convincing enough to have led Historic Royal Palaces to study it, restore it, and, in 2019, display it at Hampton Court alongside the famous Rainbow Portrait of Elizabeth I.
    — Filippo Iarocci, Vanity Fair, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The struggle for retailers now is convincing consumers and lawmakers that digital labels won’t open the door to problematic pricing practices.
    — Alex Vuocolo, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of convincing
Verb
  • An English springer spaniel in Alabama loves nothing more than spending her whole day in the pool and has taken to tricking her parents into letting her into the pool every day.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
  • In many cases, the robot tail wags the living dog by tricking it—tricking us—into caring about obscure metrics, then gamifying the process of improving them.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of tricking
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“Fast-talking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fast-talking. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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