smooth-talking

comparative more smooth-talking · superlative most smooth-talking · alternative smooth talking · alternative smoothtalking

1. Insincerely ingratiating; flattering.

   At twenty-one, it was easy for strippers to fall for smooth-talking, married customers.

   2011, Shara Azod, Irresistible, →ISBN

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   By the time the campaign was finished, you never saw a quicker, more smooth-talking political animal than Afram Milovan.

   1988, Owen Sela, The KGB Candidate, →ISBN, page 261

   Children are an increasingly attractive target for ID thieves, in part because they're easy prey for smooth-talking predators in chat rooms, and because the crime can go undetected for years.

   2005, Dan Tynan, Computer Privacy Annoyances, →ISBN

   In another case, a young woman, a smooth-talking, parasitic psychopath, constantly complained to her friends that her parents were not contributing enough to her already lavish lifestyle.

   2011, Robert D. Hare, Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, →ISBN

alternative smooth talking · alternative smoothtalking

1. uncountableSynonym of smooth talk.

   No more smooth-talking or wheedling or coercing.

   2014, Bonnie Dee, The New Leaf Pledge, →ISBN

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   Anything is possible, but if you haven't begun talking smooth yet, then I would really like to have a demonstration of what you think smooth-talking is.

   2008, Brian Peterson, Move Over, Girl: A Novel, →ISBN, page 114

   For instance, suppose that smooth-talking is important for business.

   2013, David Hulme, John Toye, Understanding Poverty and Well-Being: Bridging the Disciplines, →ISBN

   Synonyms: smooth talk

alternative smooth talking · alternative smoothtalking

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of smooth-talk