slickster

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Recent Examples of slickster Anyone from a Hollywood Goth to a streetwear enthusiast to your average Hollywood slickster looking for something streamlined and stylish will find something here. Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2022 The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather. Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017 Tom Parker-like showbiz slickster, believed in success by way of publicity-generating spectacle. Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slickster
Noun
  • Implications Le Grand's work on post-World War II British social policy found that perceptions of human motivations gradually transformed, with the prevailing view of the typical British citizenry morphing from knight into knave as the costs of maintaining an expensive welfare state increased.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The European far right is skillfully seizing the moment, promising an agricultural overhaul and a chance to stick it to the city slickers.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • For the dapper dog walker there's plenty of tweed caps and country-style rain slickers.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Alex has two choices: Linger at Union Station and see what rascals cross her path, or take up an invitation to join her British guardian angels at their home in Winnetka.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
  • After their car is stolen, the group of rascals must resort to some hilarious hijinks to get past the finish line.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • John Richard Simplot was a real wheeler-dealer, one of the last of the old-school American entrepreneurs.
    Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Roseman, grounded in salary cap machinations, negotiations and analytics, is a wheeler-dealer deluxe.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Here’s the thing most people get wrong: sales isn’t about being pushy, manipulative, or slick.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • There is therefore a good chance the fuel will mix into the seawater below, breaking up the surface slick, potentially exposing the seabed to contaminants.
    Lauren Lowman, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
Noun
  • The island is home to over 260 bird species, as well as other animals like alligators and foxes.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The foxes, however, eat the hares and thus limit their population.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Saturday's talks in Rome between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran over the rogue regime’s failure to dismantle its illicit nuclear weapons program have raised pressing questions about whether Tehran will adhere to a new deal.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Sadly, for now, Murkowski is one of vanishingly few Republican politicians with the guts to speak up against the party’s rogue president — a brave, but lonely, voice in the wilderness.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Slickster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slickster. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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