smooth-tongued s artfully persuasive in speech a smooth-tongued hypocrite Usage(s) He is very pugnacious, but is also a smooth-tongued type. Aside from Franklin Rooseveltwho is rated an amateursmooth-tongued, silver-haired, 46-year-old Funnyman Jack Benny is the biggest voice in radio. He found that squads of oily, smooth-tongued salesmen had combed Cleveland with tales of a great shortage of burial ground. Synonym(s) glib glib-tongued