smooth-talker

A form of smooth talker — A person who smooth talks.

Meanings

nounsmooth-talker (plural smooth-talkers)

plural smooth-talkers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of smooth talker.

    Fisk is remembered as a smooth-talker who was always quick with a quip.

    2004 November 14, Mark Bushnell, “From peddler to Wall Street robber baron”, in Vermont Sunday Magazine (The Sunday Rutland Herald and the Sunday Times Argus), page 5
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    Among those smooth-talkers who allow the name of God to fall trippingly from their tongues, glibness is underrated as a vice and reticence is underrated as a virtue.

    1981 March 11, Roy Larson, “God the ‘Wholly Other’”, in The Herald-News, volume 110, number 69, page A-10

    Several described him Thursday as a smooth-talker who occasionally was caught in his own lies.

    1982 August 8, John F. Brown, Jill Carlson, “Rotar jailed; murder warrant issued”, in The Sunday Times Herald, Port Huron, Mich., page 1A
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