Ivy League; elegant, refined, cultured, smoothspoken, well-spoken, well-bred; polite, unfailingly polite, courtly, gracious, agreeable, disarming, proper, decorous; affected, Inf. la-di-da, pretentious; ingratiating, smarmy, unctuous, smug.
3. sly, shrewd, cunning, crafty, wily, sharp, sharp-witted; calculating, designing, manipulative; subtle, insidious, Byzantine, devious.
4. ingenious, clever, bright, brilliant, inventive, resourceful, creative, imaginative, Inf. nifty.
5. slippery, oily, glassy, greasy, lubricated, soapy.
6. (of art or literature) glib, fluent, SI. Madison Avenue, Si. Mad Av; superficial, shallow, surface, two-dimensional, without depth; popular, Inf pop, lowbrow, unintellectual, hack, second-rate; trivial, frothy, kitschy, slight, thin, lightweight, Inf halfbaked; inferior, mediocre, trashy, rubbishy, SI. schlock, worthless; vulgar, coarse, tasteless, fulsome, SI. for the birds.
7. Slang, wonderful, remarkable, noteworthy, notable; extraordinary, exceptional, Inf terrific, great, amazing, SI. A-OK, Inf. a bit of all right; first-rate, SI. top-hole, top-drawer, SI. top-shelf, Inf A-one, perfect, first-class, SI. super.
slide, v. 1. glide, plane, skate, skim, glissade, ski; coast, toboggan, sled, roll down, snowball; slither, fall, bounce down, slink, wriggle; skid, sideslip, tumble.
2. slip, move, pass, lapse, decline.
3. push, nudge, shove, shoot; hand over, pass along.
4. let slide forget, neglect, ignore, drop, abandon, not give a thought to; pay no mind to, let ride. -n. 5. chute, trough, tube, shaft, conveyor,
slight, adj. 1. small, little, tiny, Inf. teeny, smallish, diminutive; miniature, pocket-sized, bantam, Inf. baby, Inf baby-sized, small-scale; wee, Inf. dinky, puny, Inf pint-sized, short, Inf. half-pint.
2. slender, slim, thin, light; delicate, minikin, (of a woman), petite, gracile; lean, dapper, narrow, filamentous, filiform.
3. infinitesimal, minute, microscopic, molecular; inappreciable, imperceptible, imponderable, indiscernible; intangible, impalpable, subtle, fine, evanescent.
4. petty, minor, unimportant, insignificant, immaterial, irrelevant, not vital, neither here nor there; negligible, unsubstantial, insubstantial, inconsiderable, of no consequence, inconsequential, unnotable, unnoted; trivial, trifling, paltry, nugatory, worthless.
5. superficial, shallow, depthless, pointless, skin-deep; empty, vacuous, hollow, void; inane, fatuous, silly, airy, ridiculous, foolish, fatuitous; frivolous, frothy.
6. frail, feeble, fragile, flimsy, sleazy; weak, faint, Dial, pindling, enervated; attenuated, tenuous, weakened.
7. breakable, frangible; jerry-built, unsteady, undependable, defective; precarious, unstable, insecure; rickety, tottering, tottery, unsteady, Chiefly U.S. teetery.
8. tolerable, fair, passable, mediocre, moderate, modest; below or under the mark, below or under par, insufficient, not enough, deficient; inadequate, scanty, meager, sparse, skimpy, poor, weak, lame.
-v. 9. snub, cut, turn one's back upon, turn up one's nose at, Inf. high-hat. See - snub (def. 1).
10. insult, affront, SI. put down, SI. cut up, give offense to. See - snub (def. 2).
11. embarrass, disconcert, abash, mortify, Inf. gross out, upset; confuse, fluster, ruffle, discountenance, distract, discompose, confound.