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Noun: slickness  slik-nus
  1. Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
    - trickery, hocus-pocus, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
     
  2. A kind of fluent easy superficiality
    "the slickness of a high-pressure salesman"
    - glibness
     
  3. A slippery smoothness
    "he could feel the slickness of the tiller"
    - slick, slipperiness, slip

Derived forms: slicknesses

See also: slick

Type of: deceit, deception, misrepresentation, shallowness, smoothness, superficiality