slickness

Example Sentences

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Rodgers said later that his team were too safe, lacked speed, slickness, precision and personality.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

Soulfulness versus slickness is of the worthiest subjects in our increasingly AI-dominated age, and it’s already led to some true modern classics, from “Her” to “After Yang.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2023

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

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2023

The Judds’ preternatural Kentucky harmonies politely rebuffed the “Urban Cowboy” craze sparked by the 1980 film, and country’s increasing slickness.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2023

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

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi