smooth-tongued

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Adjective
  • Any extra trimmings would land somewhere between glib and sacrilegious.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl are both excellent: Hemsworth plays charming, glib dreamboat James Hunt, while Brühl plays Niki Lauda, a moody loner who resents Hunt’s flash.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Meghan McCain, the conservative commentator and daughter of late Senator John McCain, faced immediate backlash after mocking Greta Thunberg's appearance, comparing the Swedish climate activist to Shrek villain Lord Farquaad in a post critics slammed as hypocritical.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Republicans, however, have called Democrats hypocritical, noting that several of the states to which Texas Democrats fled during their quorum break were ones that have been gerrymandered.
    Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The bleachers beside the benches were nearly full and accordingly voluble.
    Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • As recent college graduates face one of the toughest job markets in years, Berkeley economist and voluble Substacker Brad DeLong has a message for those struggling to land their first full-time gig: Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are not to blame.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • For one, Vitale writes that the sort of direct-to-camera monologues that have become the toast of Bourdainposting were, in Bourdain’s eyes, corny and insincere.
    Tres Dean, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The movie does not earn the right for such an insincere have-your-I-Heart-the-’90s-cake-and-eat-it-too gesture.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • And your leadership needs to create conditions where everyone—not just the well-resourced or well-spoken—can thrive.
    Aparna Rae, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • True as that might be, Alex is white, pretty, and well-spoken.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Smith’s flow is no longer conversational, liquidy and silver-tongued; his lyrics are no longer convivial or directed straight to the heart and head.
    A.D. Amorosi, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Benjamin Laker is a university professor who writes about leadership Summary Beware the two-faced colleague!
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • There’s a constituency within the White House that still believes Apple is two-faced, all talk and no action.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Both prove facile stabs at deepening their male counterparts.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The inability to perceive this limitation is amplified for LLMs as their facile use of human language suggests to humans that all other brain capabilities () exist in addition to the Communicating function, as this is the foundational cognitive basis set for all humans.
    Marcus Weldon, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Smooth-tongued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smooth-tongued. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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