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slickness|ˈslɪknɪs|
[f. slick a. + -ness.]
1. Smoothness. rare.
1667Phil. Trans. II. 482 Some of which [stones, Calculi] were so bestow'd as to slide upon others, and had thereby worn their flats to a wonderfull slikness. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 28 June 3-a/1 It's a three-quarter ton pickup with skid-trailer, painted the bright orange of the Montana Highway Department. It tests the slickness of the road surface.
2. Smartness.
1872Daily News 5 Aug., I know not whether the uniform..gives him a greater appearance of what in the North is called ‘slickness’.
3. Dexterity, cleverness. Now freq. derog.
1895Daily News 5 June 7/2 A mere sketch, it is true, but with all his slickness and deftness of execution. 1899Ibid. 22 Apr. 9/4 The slickness of the painting..is quite admirable. 1927Music & Letters July 321 Pure artistry may decline to a mere slickness and facility. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iv. 112 Anything cheap, shoddy, shallow or clever to a degree of slickness, is out of place. |