smooth-tongued

adjective

Definition of smooth-tonguednext
1
as in glib

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2
as in hypocritical

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smooth-tongued
  1. glib
  2. hypocritical
  3. voluble
  4. insincere
  5. well-spoken
  6. two-faced
  7. facile
  8. erroneous
Adjective
  • No Good Deed has no such force to mitigate the glib jokes and exhausting, seemingly random left turns.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Nicholas Hunter goes from glib to gripping as Whizzer; Max Green adds a hilarious goofiness to unconventional psychiatrist Mendel; and Juno McQueen is flawless as Jason, often the wisest character onstage.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of glib
Adjective
  • And to sit up there, man, and to be just blatantly hypocritical is funny and sickening at the same time.
    Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
  • If an organization’s culture is aspirational rather than lived and practiced, the result is often a hypocritical, inauthentic hiring experience.
    Lori Landrum, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of hypocritical
Adjective
  • Still, the response from the industry to the 2024 reports and their full-throated call for adaptation in parallel with mitigation has been, if not muted, then less than voluble.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • And in Times Square, where a dense orchestra of honking horns, idling motors, chattering tourists, and voluble vendors can push sound levels north of 90 decibels, the song’s unmistakable tinny beat and pogoing piano loop manage to cut through the din.
    Max Cea, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of voluble
Adjective
  • Think of nervous smiles, insincere smiles, and smirks.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • His argument: propaganda does not always have to be insincere or untrue.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of insincere
Adjective
  • In many such films, Naveen (Karan Soni) would be the most desirable of matches for a female protagonist: good-looking, well-spoken and a working doctor.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
  • These kids are kind, well-spoken, talented and clever.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
Definition of well-spoken
Adjective
  • During the live stream on Thursday, Wiggins claimed that Reynolds, the ex-husband of Star Jones, is jealous, two-faced and attempting to sabotage the show, which runs on the Fox Soul streaming service.
    Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2024
  • Since celestial twins symbolize the sign, Gemini tends to be unfairly stereotyped as two-faced or manipulative.
    Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 19 May 2024
Definition of two-faced
Adjective
  • The benefit of all of this, of course, is a shift toward recognizing, at least in the zeitgeist, the seemingly facile truth: that moms have identities and desires beyond being moms.
    Cady Lang, TIME, 24 May 2024
  • The commentary on social media is mostly facile, although a humiliating trick played on Nikki is devilishly funny and some of the flashback-recap sequences make zippy use of online video.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
Definition of facile
Adjective
  • An employee with responsibility for small package delivery expense accounting intentionally made erroneous accounting accrual entries to hide about $151 million of cumulative delivery expenses from the fourth quarter of 2021 through the third quarter of 2024, Macy’s indicated.
    David Moin, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
  • In a statement accompanying its quarterly earnings results, the department store chain said a single employee responsible for small package delivery expense accounting had intentionally created erroneous cost entries from the fourth quarter of 2021 through the third quarter of 2024.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of erroneous
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Thesaurus Entries Near smooth-tongued

smooths (out or over)

smooth-tongued

smoothy

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