Synonyms for slickness
Most common
trickery hocus-pocus skulduggery hanky-panky slick slipperiness glibness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Trickery
trickery, skulduggery, skullduggery US, hocus-pocus, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery
2. Slick
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The property of being slick.
Forms
- Plural
- slicknesses → trickeries, skulduggeries, hocus-pocuses, hanky-pankies…
Example sentences
- trickery The ones who lack courage, exceed in trickery.
- skulduggery This kind of partisan skulduggery has no place in a government agency.
- slick The statues in the museum courtyard were slick with rain.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| slickness | rising | |
| trickery | rising | |
| skulduggery | steady | |
| slick | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- slip1
- 5 letters
- slick1
- 8 letters
- trickery3, glibness
- 9 letters
- lubricity4
- 11 letters
- skulduggery4
- 12 letters
- skullduggery, slipperiness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (trickery3 = 3 syllables).