glad-hander

The aloof New England academic and the Irish glad-hander proved a perfect match.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Biden, a veteran campaigner and glad-hander who spent nearly 30 years in the Senate, seems to enjoy the trail -- in contrast to Obama, who increasingly appears to find it a chore.

'Terrifying Numbers for Democrats' James Taranto 2010

The aloof New England academic and the Irish glad-hander proved a perfect match.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

When Hitler took power in 1933, he made the cosmopolitan Hanfstaengl his foreign press secretary and glad-hander for Americans checking out the new chancellor.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Heck comes across as, well, kind of a slick glad-hander (I think he's more than that, but he comes across that way).

Pridemore Wins State Labor Council Endorsement Over Heck « PubliCola 2010

When Hitler took power in 1933, he made the cosmopolitan Hanfstaengl his foreign press secretary and glad-hander for Americans checking out the new chancellor.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

From afar Biden looked like a windy, gaffe-prone glad-hander; up close he was still a filterless chatterbox.

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

Up to this moment, Kevin has been a curiosity in Elmira, an outsider with a scent of danger and an aura of the big-time, a glad-hander who is as friendly with white shopkeepers as he is with the slackers and the troublemakers.

Zebratown Greg Donaldson 2010

From afar Biden looked like a windy, gaffe-prone glad-hander; up close he was still a filterless chatterbox.

THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

Claudius (Jeffrey King) is a glib glad-hander who looks like Daddy Warbucks.

Hamlet the Hipster 2010