From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
slickness n 1: verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way [syn: trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery] 2: a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman" [syn: glibness, slickness] 3: a slippery smoothness; "he could feel the slickness of the tiller" [syn: slickness, slick, slipperiness, slip]