smoothtalk
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "In many of the “old” movies the dashing salesman, a/k/a Cary Grant, smoothtalks and coyly charms the receptionist to do his bidding."
- "But that night, in the autumn dusk, surrounded by the buzz of vapor lights and a haze of smoke, I saw my friend John suddenly on the other side, left ear newly pierced, joint in hand, and I felt betrayed. He smiled and smoothtalked, “Hey, man, [something about the show].”"
- "After smoothtalking some Air Canada reps at the gate, I got bumped up to first class."
- "The play presents a kind of war of different languages: office jargon; franglais marketing jargon; old-fashioned academic language; new media slang; jazzmen’s roughtalk; salesmen’s smoothtalk; high-finance talk, etc."
- "Boston sportswriters were similarly taken. They were used to dealing with either the taciturn Collins or the smoothtalk of Joe Cronin."
- "Unprepared for the “depths of their skullduggery,” their bald-faced prevarications and smoothtalk, he’s gulled and fleeced, although still enough a man of the frontier to take back his losings at gunpoint."