2003 , Steven M. Best , When Philosophers Were Kings , This was his second time today, and announcing that she was "plum-tuckered and ready for a whirl," he mounted her, hanging tight on every jump, bouncing free of her when she hit her peak, then walking and smooth-talking her again.
2009 , Otto Kroeger, ‎Janet M. Thuesen, & ‎Hile Rutledge, Type Talk at Work , Extraverts, because of their verbal prowess, would be able to smooth-talk their way through almost any situation.
2014 , Matt Green , Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Will Smith , Whenever he would get in trouble, Smith turned up the charm even more, smooth-talking his way out of serious punishment.
Noun
smooth-talk
(uncountable)
2000 , Graham Hamer , Paperchase , It took two full minutes of Ron Scott's greasy smooth-talk to calm Richard, even lighting a fresh cigarette for him after he had finished brusing the ash off his boss's shoulders.
2008 , Luke Prodromou , English as a Lingua Franca: A Corpus-based Analysis , Smooth-talk isolates and distances the speaker and excludes the interlocutor from involvement.
2012 , Alain Mabanckou , Black Bazaar , When my ex burst out laughing, I quickly added that, over time, we stopped believing in Big Poupy's smooth-talk which cost us a lot for nothing.
