smooth-talking

Definitions

1. 1

   Insincerely ingratiating

   Insincerely ingratiating; flattering.

   • By the time the campaign was finished, you never saw a quicker, more smooth-talking political animal than Afram Milovan.
   • 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Synonym of smooth talk.

   • 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.
   • For instance, suppose that smooth-talking is important for business.
   • No more smooth-talking or wheedling or coercing.
3. 3

   present participle and gerund of smooth-talk

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