smooth-spoken
Example Sentences
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Interrogation scenes are a staple of crime shows, where wily, smooth-spoken police officers in closed rooms strategically grill their subjects into telling all.
From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2019
Most Rev. Pierre Gerlier, well-loved and smooth-spoken bishop of the French diocese which includes the famed shrine of Lourdes, who was raised last summer to be Archbishop of Lyons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week shrewd, smooth-spoken Mr. Johnston added to his stature.
From Time Magazine Archive
Senator Phipps, smooth-spoken, onetime vice president of the Carnegie Steel Co., hence the best-dressed man in the Senate, represents the State of Colorado.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we were correspondents, heads were shaken, and smooth-spoken people with stars and crowns on their shoulder-straps said they doubted very much whether Lord Roberts would grant any more passes.
From The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Young, Filson
