slickness

Example Sentences

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Paramount dispenses with the slickness and some of the how-to’s of other tours, focusing instead on its historic Hollywood locale on Melrose Avenue.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

There was a speed and slickness to their play, exploiting the sizeable spaces the Belgians were willing to leave in the middle of the park.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023

The taciturn slickness of this show provokes an uncomfortable reaction: Is there no feeling here?

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

It has to have a slickness and a larger-than-life quality to it.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2023

He clawed again for the copper and looped the wiring around his hand to counteract its slickness.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi