outslicking

verb

Definition of outslickingnext
present participle of outslick
as in defeating
to get the better of through cleverness an overly confident con man who thought that he could outslick anyone, even the local Mob leader

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  1. deceiving
  2. fooling
  3. overreaching
Verb
  • Arizona's temperature can be deceiving and deadly.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In July, Boeing agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud for deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration regulators who approved the 737 Max.
    Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of deceiving
Verb
  • Liverpool are regularly seeing apps that replicate the appearance of genuine tickets — fooling not just first-time visitors to Anfield.
    James Pearce, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate aim is, with the use of multiple layers of such transformations, fooling malware classifiers into thinking malicious code is, in fact, totally benign.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of fooling
Verb
  • In the meantime, not everyone is convinced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t already overreaching in Syria to win domestic political points.
    Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a difference between overreaching and more dangerous behaviors.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of overreaching
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