fast-talker

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fast-talker
Noun
  • Anyone from a Hollywood Goth to a streetwear enthusiast to your average Hollywood slickster looking for something streamlined and stylish will find something here.
    Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather.
    Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • Roseman, grounded in salary cap machinations, negotiations and analytics, is a wheeler-dealer deluxe.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Michele Jackson More than six decades ago, New Yorker writer John Bainbridge spent nine months in the newly wealthy, fast-growing state of Texas, studying and schmoozing with its wheeler-dealers, oilmen, and bankers.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • With their heavy bodies, the rascals had ridden down the oak trees to crop the luscious acorns from the tree tips.
    Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Till then, the always-in-hot-water antics of CIA attorney/reluctant spy Owen Hendricks (Centineo) keep us engaged and curious over how the troublemaking rascal is going to get out of another mess he’s made.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Also featured: a scene in which Parsons, a gamesman who actually brought his own Connect Four board to Southern California training camp, faces backup quarterback Ben DiNucci in a chess match.
    Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Friedlander’s style of photography is usually cool, winking, and gamesman-like, but his pictures of his wife thrum with gentle affection.
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
Noun
  • There was one spot in particular where the light from the setting sun filtered through the trees, providing a soft rim light to the foxes.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The fox was spotted several times overnight by searchers but remains on the loose, the zoo said.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The European far right is skillfully seizing the moment, promising an agricultural overhaul and a chance to stick it to the city slickers.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • For the dapper dog walker there's plenty of tweed caps and country-style rain slickers.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • He’s gone fully rogue trying to hunt down this mob boss, even using her client to trick a different member of the gang into testifying for him.
    Ayan Artan, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
  • But soon afterward—and reportedly without clearing her plans with Netflix—Gascón went rogue.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Fast-talker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fast-talker. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!