smooth-talker

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Noun[edit]

smooth-talker (plural smooth-talkers)

  1. Alternative form of smooth talker.
    • 1981 March 11, Roy Larson, “God the ‘Wholly Other’”, in The Herald-News, volume 110, number 69, page A-10:
      Among those smooth-talkers who allow the name of God to fall trippingly from their tongues, glibness is underrated as a vice and reticence is underrated as a virtue.
    • 1982 August 8, John F. Brown, Jill Carlson, “Rotar jailed; murder warrant issued”, in The Sunday Times Herald, Port Huron, Mich., page 1A:
      Several described him Thursday as a smooth-talker who occasionally was caught in his own lies.
    • 2004 November 14, Mark Bushnell, “From peddler to Wall Street robber baron”, in Vermont Sunday Magazine (The Sunday Rutland Herald and the Sunday Times Argus), page 5:
      Fisk is remembered as a smooth-talker who was always quick with a quip.