smooth-tongued

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Adjective
  • The glib protagonist sauntering through a narrative that never transcends his flippant observations; an emotional vampire who sucks the energy not only out of her friends but also the reader.
    Lucas Schaefer June 13, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
  • The Eagles will never be as glib, if this takes place.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • Later Tuesday, Johnson said the violence in Los Angeles is not comparable to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and said Trump's mass pardons of Jan. 6 rioters were not hypocritical.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 10 June 2025
  • Against this backdrop, Iran is leveraging social media and state media to frame the U.S. as unstable and hypocritical—part of a broader strategy to weaken its global credibility amid deepening diplomatic tensions.
    Amanda Castro Shane Croucher Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Happy to be voluble on this topic is Induprakas Keri in his role as SVP and GM of hybrid cloud at Nutanix.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • And speaking to the cameras, an endlessly voluble star seems choked-off.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Democrats doubled down on issues that didn’t resonate with male voters and the tactics often used were corny, insincere and offensive.
    Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 2 June 2025
  • That’s not to say the film’s focus on the magic and mysteries male companionship is insincere.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 May 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Facing mounting pressure and a Supreme Court order, the Trump administration returned him this month to face the smuggling charges, which Abrego Garcia’s attorneys characterized as an attempt to justify his erroneous deportation.
    Ben Finley, Fortune, 27 June 2025
  • Kavanaugh stressed that the Court needs to remain active in taking cases and issuing stays in order to avoid letting erroneous injunctions remain in place for years on end.
    The Editors, National Review, 27 June 2025
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“Smooth-tongued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smooth-tongued. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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