slicker vs peculator

peculator vs slicker

slicker and peculator both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
slicker	Yes	No	No	No
peculator	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, peculator is a hyponym of slicker; that is, peculator is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than slicker:

slicker: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
peculator: someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

Other hyponyms of slicker include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

slicker (noun)	peculator (noun)
a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof	someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
a person with good manners and stylish clothing

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