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smooth-spoken
adjective as in eloquent
Strongest matches
adjective as in fluent
adjective as in glib
adjective as in hypocritical
adjective as in Pecksniffian
Weak matches
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- pharisaic
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
adjective as in pharisaic
Weak matches
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- Pecksniffian
- pharisaical
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
adjective as in pharisaical
Weak matches
- affected
- artificial
- assuming
- bland
- canting
- captious
- caviling
- deceptive
- deluding
- dissembling
- double
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- false
- feigning
- fishy
- fraudulent
- glib
- hollow
- insincere
- jivey
- left-handed
- lying
- moralistic
- oily
- Pecksniffian
- pharisaic
- phony
- pietistic
- pious
- sanctimonious
- self-righteous
- smooth
- smooth-tongued
- snide
- specious
- spurious
- two-faced
- unctuous
- unnatural
- unreliable
adjective as in slick
adjective as in smooth-tongued
adjective as in vocal
Example Sentences
Interrogation scenes are a staple of crime shows, where wily, smooth-spoken police officers in closed rooms strategically grill their subjects into telling all.
When elected to the legislature he meets many smooth-spoken gentlemen whose schemes are so plausible that he readily assents to them,—but not an octopus does he see.
Little and quiet and smooth-spoken, he could put the legal leather into the biggest bullies the other side could hire.
The Abbot, smiling and crafty as always, patiently awaited the time, so sure to come, when noise and clamor should exhaust itself, and his own smooth-spoken counsel should prevail.
Then they sheltered a smooth-spoken Italian called Giuseppe, who nearly got them into terrible trouble.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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