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Recent Examples of slickster
Anyone from a Hollywood Goth to a streetwear enthusiast to your average Hollywood slickster looking for something streamlined and stylish will find something here.
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Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2022
The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather.
—Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017
Tom Parker-like showbiz slickster, believed in success by way of publicity-generating spectacle.
—Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2016
Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2022
The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather.
—Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017
Tom Parker-like showbiz slickster, believed in success by way of publicity-generating spectacle.
—Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slickster
Noun
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Many a knave is rich, sleek, and honored, while the just man is poor, hated, and in torment.—
Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?—
W.E. Gutman,
Sun Sentinel,
8 July 2025
Noun
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City slickers will definitely get a bang for their buck with this place, which is a lot more spacious than a shoebox on the Upper East Side.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
17 Nov. 2025
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During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Not even the curmudgeonly Melvin can bring himself to harm the little rascal.—
Camille Perri,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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My mother was a total gem but also a bit of a rascal.—
Catherine Pearson,
New York Times,
8 May 2026
Noun
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That’s the punch line of an old joke about a wheeler-dealer offering something attractive — on the condition the offeree sell their soul to the devil.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
31 May 2026
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Bordeaux’s rise was fuelled by Claude Bez, a wheeler-dealer who ran an accounting firm.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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By the time the tournament reached Argentina four years later, though, the Dutch were not quite the slick — if defensively-flawed — outfit that played in 1974.—
Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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Her slick, curled bixie cut echoed the clean sculptural lines of the look.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
21 May 2026
Noun
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Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match.—
Jori Epstein,
USA TODAY,
18 Aug. 2021
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Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.—
Michael Luo,
The New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2019
Noun
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The film is set in a declining industrial city in Northeast China and traces a young man’s search for his father, a small-time schemer who chased quick riches during the freewheeling capitalist surge of the late 1990s and early 2000s in Southern China.—
Marcus Lim,
Variety,
18 June 2026
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Readers may learn about the Florida aquifer, cowhunters, deadhead logging, old-school conservationists such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas and even Charles Ponzi, the famed schemer.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Moreover, the official mascots succeed in spotting various varmints — foxes and possums, to be specific, but thankfully, no vultures.—
Ed Silverman,
STAT,
16 June 2026
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The aliens’ ability to take on the forms of stags, foxes and cardinals is also in line with what experiencers have reported about their visitations.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
13 June 2026
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“Slickster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slickster. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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