slick

slick
adj
1. glossy, sleek, shiny, lustrous, shining, satiny, silken; smooth, smooth as glass, glazed, lacquered; bare, smooth as a billiard ball or baby's bottom.
2. suave, urbane, Sl. with it, sophisticated, worldly, Ivy League; elegant, refined, cultured, smoothspoken, well-spoken, well-bred; polite, unfailingly polite, courtly, gracious, agreeable, disarming, proper, decorous; affected, Inf. la-di-da, pretentious; ingratiating, smarmy, unctuous, smug.
3. sly, shrewd, cunning, crafty, wily, sharp, sharp-witted; calculating, designing, manipulative; subtle, insidious, Byzantine, devious.
4. ingenious, clever, bright, brilliant, inventive, resourceful, creative, imaginative, Inf. nifty.
5. slippery, oily, glassy, greasy, lubricated, soapy.
6.(of art or literature) glib, fluent, Sl. Madison Avenue, Sl. Mad Av; superficial, shallow, surface, two-dimensional, without depth; popular, Inf. pop, lowbrow, unintellectual, hack, second-rate; trivial, frothy, kitschy, slight, thin, lightweight, Inf. half-baked; inferior, mediocre, trashy, rubbishy, Sl. schlock, worthless; vulgar, coarse, tasteless, fulsome, Sl. for the birds.
7.Slang. wonderful, remarkable, noteworthy, notable; extraordinary, exceptional, Inf. terrific, great, amazing, Sl. A-OK, Inf. a bit of all right; first-rate, Sl. top-hole, top-drawer, Sl. top-shelf, Inf. A-one, perfect, first-class, Sl. super.

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