Sentence examples for slick operator from inspiring English sources

He was regarded as highly competent, a slick operator.

"He seemed like the slick operator who was too important to fly commercial," Mr. Phillippi said.

He had a reputation as a slick operator while serving as higher education minister under Clarke.

But there is no question that David Cameron goes into the debates as a slick operator on a natural medium, on his chosen turf.

Daland, her father, is a slick operator who's happy to forge a passport or even prostitute his daughter if the price is right.

You can imagine the formula: a feisty female spook, a slick operator in a masculine world, wherein equality is the opportunity for a woman to show she can tee up torture and extrajudicial killing as well as the next man.

Meet the slick operators who make a living lying for corporations.

These conditions are met in "Candyland," and who could imagine such slick operators as Evan Hunter and Ed McBain failing in this regard?

The New York City disco sphere of the 1970s was a blinding world spinning unto itself, running on celebrities, celebrity worshipers, cocaine, polyester, slick operators and music with memorable beats and forgettable lyrics.

The headline over Simon Carr's sketch Two slick operators, and no hint of wrongdoing conveyed his scepticism about the way in which both men sought to distance themselves from the idea that News International figures in their everyday concerns.

These include Thomas H. Lee Partners, a big private-equity firm which holds a major stake in Refco, as well as the investment banks that underwrote the company's IPO: Credit Suisse First Boston, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America took the lead.More broadly the scandal was an unwelcome blow to the futures industry, which has tried for years to shed its reputation as a hotbed of slick operators.