Meanings
plural smooth-talkers
- 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 52 more examples
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-10Several 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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