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salesmanish en · ADJ

Etymology

From salesman + -ish.

Meanings

1. Like a salesman; salesmanly.
   • Minutes later, he realized that it looked too formal, and too salesmanish. 2014, Ramaswamy Balakrishnan, The Man With A Naked Face, →ISBN:
   • How do you do, sir? (very hearty, "salesmanish" approach) 1968, Edward S. Bordin, Psychological counseling, page 53:
   • Not through charm (though his arsenal included a salesmanish version of that) and not through its antithesis, coercion (though browbeating was an old specialty of his), but through a counterbalanced combination of the two that called to mind an expert dog trainer, with the sit and stay commands swapped for shut up and pay. 2013, Jonathan Miles, Want Not, →ISBN, page 109:
   • Peter spoke lower still though there was no one in sight except an inconspicuous salesmanish-looking passenger doing his constitutional round the deck. 1937, Lee Thayer, Last Trump, page 119:

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