Word Meanings - GLOSSINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface. Boyle.

HUMBUG
1. An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax. 2. A spirit of deception; cajolery; trickishness. 3. One who deceives or misleads; a deceitful or trickish fellow; an impostor.
FLATTERY
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
BLARNEY
Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. Blarney stone, a stone in Blarney castle, Ireland, said to make those who kiss it proficient in the use of blarney.
ADULATION
Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak. Syn. -- Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. -- Adulation, Flattery, Compliment.
HUMBUGGERY
The practice of imposition.
BLANDILOQUENCE
Mild, flattering speech.
GLOSSINESS
The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface. Boyle.
HUMBUGGER
One who humbugs.