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• n  someone skilled at conversation

• Bill Richardson, Barack Obama's choice for Secretary of Commerce, is a man of the West: a gregarious, horseback-riding schmoozer who enjoys cigars and boxing.
• The ultimate secret ingredient is stardust, which is why Jean-Louis hired Claude "Coco" Bakonyi as schmoozer in chief.
• He is a natural leader, a pathological schmoozer, insatiably curious and often the smartest person in the room.

• conversationalist
• conversationist

News & Articles

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• Sally Gorton, wife of senator, is remembered
  On the evening she and husband Slade returned from a four-day honeymoon to San Francisco, Sally Gorton went doorbelling in her husband’s first legislative race. “He’s not a schmoozer,” the former Seattle Times reporter would tell Slade Gorton’s biographer John Hughes more than 50 years later. Sally Gorton, 80, died early Saturday morning of cancer. She was an accomplished storyteller, civic ...
  July 23, 2013 - seattlepi.com

Quotes

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• Sir Alan Sugar in Bucks Free Press
  Sir Alan Sugar said: "Either he's a tremendous schmoozer or he didn't deserve to be brought back into the boardroom. He always seemed to give his all - he was a team player. He was so passionate. He delivered some time I asked him to do something."
• Christopher Edley in Education Week News (blog)
  I don't mean to be critical of Elena,Edley wrote. "I know she's got many more important things to do than yack with an interloping schmoozer. Life is complicated."
• Joel Stroetzel in Boston Herald
  Brendan is like a rock 'n' roll schmoozer dude. He kind of boosted Howard's confidence and drive. And I think (Howard's) kind of more believable because of Brendan. (O'Brien) was a very laid-back guy and made things very easy,Stroetzel added....