slickness

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Recent Examples of slickness 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slickness
Noun
  • Federico Marchetti, the Italian fashion entrepreneur, is a master of sprezzatura—the courtier’s art of cloaking ambition and cunning in an air of guileless nonchalance.
    John Seabrook, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But Israeli cunning, buoyed by remarkable intelligence capabilities and precision targeting, has damaged the group.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Restraint and subtlety have become her trademarks.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
  • As my colleague Lila Shapiro found in her reporting over the summer, peace has long been made with the trade-off of cheaper, faster output at the cost of subtlety and craft.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There is a real seriousness to the score — the scheming bad-guy music has the artfulness of Prokofiev, and even the sneaking-around cues have musical integrity and structure.
    Tim Greiving, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Ay, the superb slyness of that last response!
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This article is the fourth in a five-part series on the power of strength training to relieve pain and create ease in movement.
    Dana Santas, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But as the months have passed, Juni has stopped stashing food, loves to nap, and seems so much more at ease.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Creativity was sorely lacking last season, with the side mustering the lowest xG of any side to avoid relegation, but now an attacking midfield trident of Grealish, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Iliman Ndiaye brims with promise and guile.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In between is a huge chessboard for honing skills of strategy and guile while catching a tan.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Slickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slickness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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