slickster

[ slik-ster ]

noun

, Slang.

1. a crafty and opportunistic or deceitful person; hustler; swindler.

Word History and Origins

Origin of slickster¹

First recorded in 1960–65; slick + -ster

Example Sentences

A rational leader would know that shooting the lawyer and right-hand of Minnesota’s billionaire debt queen would not go unanswered, but he was embarrassed and angry and wanted to put this smug slickster in his place.

From New York Times

Dodson’s resentment of, yet yearning for, connection with IQ and fulfilling his destiny as a slickster Watson to IQ’s more cerebral Sherlock is one of the novel’s many ancillary pleasures.

From Los Angeles Times

Still, Ms. Wainwright was not your obvious online-luxury slickster.

From New York Times

Then came Ricko Canaz Ball, whose fondness for robbing car mechanics earned him the sobriquet “Oil Slickster”.

From Economist

The interviews mark a second phase in the boisterous slickster’s return to the public eye.

From Salon