Thesaurus results for SLICKNESS

slickness

noun

as in cunning

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

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Recent Examples of slickness But there’s an innate slickness to drone footage that can turn a shot of, say, a South Texas Starbucks into a joke, and there’s a mechanical quality to the way drones glide through the air that, even if controlled by a human, feels impersonal — a view from nowhere. —

Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 May 2026 And despite the Grand Hotel Belvedere's slickness, behind the scenes it is run according to the sweet sort of interdependence demanded by any small town but especially one so isolated. —

Alice Gregory, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026 He was ruled offside, but the poor timing of his run takes nothing away from the slickness of the combination, nor the effectiveness of the tactic. —

Liam Tharme, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025 Untouched by any chain stores or contemporary slickness, the neighborhood’s highlights include the Tea House on Los Rios inside a 1911 Victorian, cottage-like Hummingbird House Cafe and Hidden House Coffee found inside a Craftsman. —

Staff Report, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025 There’s a slickness about the style of everyone who lives here, and Missy captures that. —

Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025

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Maybe the mere fact of having been born illustrious, with no apparent faults, with nothing to prove or to be ashamed of, had liberated John from the resentments the rest of us feel, and from the cunning and ambition such resentments fuel.

— Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
The Brazil international combines technical craft with a decisive cunning.

— Carl Anka, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026