slicker vs pretender

pretender vs slicker

slicker and pretender both are nouns.

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

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

slicker: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
pretender: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

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, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

slicker (noun)	pretender (noun)
a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof	a person who makes deceitful pretenses
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
a person with good manners and stylish clothing

Difference between slicker and pretender

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