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Synonyms 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 for slickness
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- canniness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- foxiness,
- guile,
- guilefulness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- wiliness
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“Slickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slickness. Accessed 25 Oct. 2021.
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