"salesmanish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "salesman + -ish",
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    {
      "form": "more salesmanish",
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    {
      "form": "most salesmanish",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1937, Lee Thayer, Last Trump, page 119",
          "text": "Peter spoke lower still though there was no one in sight except an inconspicuous salesmanish-looking passenger doing his constitutional round the deck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Edward S. Bordin, Psychological counseling, page 53",
          "text": "How do you do, sir? (very hearty, \"salesmanish\" approach)",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jonathan Miles, Want Not, page 109",
          "text": "Not through charm (though his arsenal included a salesmanish version of that) and not through its antithesis, coercion (though browbeating was an old specialty of his), but through a counterbalanced combination of the two that called to mind an expert dog trainer, with the sit and stay commands swapped for shut up and pay.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Ramaswamy Balakrishnan, The Man With A Naked Face",
          "text": "Minutes later, he realized that it looked too formal, and too salesmanish.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Like a salesman; salesmanly."
      ],
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        [
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          "salesman"
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          "salesmanly",
          "salesmanly"
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  "word": "salesmanish"
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  "etymology_text": "salesman + -ish",
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    {
      "form": "more salesmanish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most salesmanish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1937, Lee Thayer, Last Trump, page 119",
          "text": "Peter spoke lower still though there was no one in sight except an inconspicuous salesmanish-looking passenger doing his constitutional round the deck.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Edward S. Bordin, Psychological counseling, page 53",
          "text": "How do you do, sir? (very hearty, \"salesmanish\" approach)",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jonathan Miles, Want Not, page 109",
          "text": "Not through charm (though his arsenal included a salesmanish version of that) and not through its antithesis, coercion (though browbeating was an old specialty of his), but through a counterbalanced combination of the two that called to mind an expert dog trainer, with the sit and stay commands swapped for shut up and pay.",
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          "ref": "2014, Ramaswamy Balakrishnan, The Man With A Naked Face",
          "text": "Minutes later, he realized that it looked too formal, and too salesmanish.",
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      ],
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        "Like a salesman; salesmanly."
      ],
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          "salesmanly",
          "salesmanly"
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