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smooth-talking

[smooth-tawk-ing]

adjective

  1. using flattery, coaxing, eloquence, or pleasant-sounding words in order to persuade.



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Once a smooth-talking R&B singer with a baby-soft voice to match, his increasing popularity saw his art become outsized, more grandiose.

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But in the context of the story, Young comes off as a smooth-talking fanatic theocrat, his nearly every utterance sounding like a threat; one can imagine him animated as a Disney villain.

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His "ruthless, smooth-talking nature" reportedly earned him the nickname "the spider" - and he's under sanctions in the EU, US and UK.

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Suave and smooth-talking, he says he's being blocked because he's challenging the political establishment.

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She was mesmerized by the smooth-talking Sonny, who raffishly claimed to be a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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