slickster

noun

Definition of slicksternext
as in knave

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Recent Examples of slickster Anyone from a Hollywood Goth to a streetwear enthusiast to your average Hollywood slickster looking for something streamlined and stylish will find something here. — Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2022 The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather. — Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017 Tom Parker-like showbiz slickster, believed in success by way of publicity-generating spectacle. — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slickster
  1. knave
  2. slicker
  3. rascal
  4. wheeler-dealer
  5. slick
  6. gamesman
  7. schemer
  8. fox
Noun
  • The knights who always told the truth and the knaves who always lied.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Try for yourselves, ye witless knaves— Take each to bed your Sally!
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
Definition of knave
Noun
  • City slickers will definitely get a bang for their buck with this place, which is a lot more spacious than a shoebox on the Upper East Side.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025
  • During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Definition of slicker
Noun
  • Even though the Feeneys have gotten more competitive under the junior Michel’s management, the rascal-on-the-field ethos of the original team still prevails.
    — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Not even the curmudgeonly Melvin can bring himself to harm the little rascal.
    — Camille Perri, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Definition of rascal
Noun
  • The Padres are fascinating because their team president, AJ Preller, is a wheeler-dealer always willing to trade his best players and best prospects.
    — Jim Bowden, New York Times, 17 July 2026
  • That’s the punch line of an old joke about a wheeler-dealer offering something attractive — on the condition the offeree sell their soul to the devil.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
Definition of wheeler-dealer
Noun
  • The Ecology Center Picture a teenage surfer paddling out through a slick of plastic and debris on a Southern California beach, trash bag in one hand.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The lip gloss gives a nonsticky, high-shine slick of color that plays nicely with sunshine or candlelight.
    — Jenny Berg, Glamour, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of slick
Noun
  • Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The weapon-wielding gamesman responded by repeatedly punching Grayson, the younger man said.
    — Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 20 Mar. 2018
Definition of gamesman
Noun
  • Matt Damon plays Odysseus as a gruff, practical tactician, rather than an energetically inventive and morally dubious schemer.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
  • The Intrigue, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (July 14) Advertisement For a handsome schemer in Mexico during the 1940s, love and longing may be the best way to an income.
    — Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026
Definition of schemer
Noun
  • In Lee’s vision of the team, SKC will have a different profile up top than the fox-in-the-box that is Joveljic.
    — Tom Bogert, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The organization highlighted careful monitoring, carried out with the farmers whose land the birds nested on, which allowed the nests to be fenced off from ground predators like foxes.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of fox

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