salesmanish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like a salesman; salesmanly.
Example Sentences
- "Peter spoke lower still though there was no one in sight except an inconspicuous salesmanish-looking passenger doing his constitutional round the deck."
- "How do you do, sir? (very hearty, "salesmanish" approach)"
- "Not through charm (though his arsenal included a salesmanish version of that) and not through its antithesis, coercion (though browbeating was an old specialty of his), but through a counterbalanced combination of the two that called to mind an expert dog trainer, with the sit and stay commands swapped for shut up and pay."
- "Minutes later, he realized that it looked too formal, and too salesmanish."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more salesmanish (comparative)
most salesmanish (superlative)