smooth-talk
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "This was his second time today, and announcing that she was "plum-tuckered and ready for a whirl," he mounted her, hanging tight on every jump, bouncing free of her when she hit her peak, then walking and smooth-talking her again."
- "Extraverts, because of their verbal prowess, would be able to smooth-talk their way through almost any situation."
- "Whenever he would get in trouble, Smith turned up the charm even more, smooth-talking his way out of serious punishment."
- "It took two full minutes of Ron Scott's greasy smooth-talk to calm Richard, even lighting a fresh cigarette for him after he had finished brusing the ash off his boss's shoulders."
- "Smooth-talk isolates and distances the speaker and excludes the interlocutor from involvement."
- "When my ex burst out laughing, I quickly added that, over time, we stopped believing in Big Poupy's smooth-talk which cost us a lot for nothing."