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smooth-talking en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Insincerely ingratiating; flattering.
   • 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:
   • At twenty-one, it was easy for strippers to fall for smooth-talking, married customers. 2011, Shara Azod, Irresistible, →ISBN:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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es labioso (ingratiating) · pl bajeranctwo (ingratiating) · cmn 諂媚的 /谄媚的 (ingratiating) · izh lippiäkeeli (ingratiating) · th ปากหวาน (ingratiating) · fi kaunopuheinen (ingratiating) · fi lipeväkielinen (ingratiating) · fr mielleux (ingratiating) · fi lipevä (ingratiating) · la suāviloquens (ingratiating)

smooth-talking en · NOUN

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1. (uncountable) Synonym of smooth talk.
   • For instance, suppose that smooth-talking is important for business. 2013, David Hulme, John Toye, Understanding Poverty and Well-Being: Bridging the Disciplines, →ISBN:
   • 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:
   • No more smooth-talking or wheedling or coercing. 2014, Bonnie Dee, The New Leaf Pledge, →ISBN:

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smooth talk

smooth-talking en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of smooth-talk
   form of smooth-talk

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