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Sleek   /slik/   Listen
adjective
Sleek  adj.  (compar. sleeker; superl. sleekest)  
1.
Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair. "So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make."
2.
Not rough or harsh. "Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek."


verb
Sleek  v. t.  (past & past part. sleeked;pres. part. sleeking)  To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over. "Sleeking her soft alluring locks." "Gentle, my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks."


noun
Sleek  n.  
1.
That which makes smooth; varnish. (R.)
2.
A slick.


adverb
Sleek  adv.  With ease and dexterity. (Low)





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"Sleek" Quotes from Famous Books



... French window opening upon the veranda, as if to secure a retreat in case of an emergency. Scrupulously washed and shaven, some of the soap appeared to have lingered in his eyes and inflamed the lids, even while it lent a sleek and shining lustre, not unlike his coat, to his smooth black hair. Nevertheless, leaning back in his chair, he had allowed a large white handkerchief to depend gracefully from his fingers—a pose at once suggesting ...
— Devil's Ford • Bret Harte
... thing, yes. The normal being is sleek by nature. It's only when he cramps himself that he gets wrinkled. Cramps himself, I say. Cramping from an outside source never has much effect upon him, unless he chooses to have it. No; that's not Christian Science; ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... distinction in my favour from other rakes; who, almost to a man, follow their inclinations without troubling themselves about consequences. In imitation, as one would think, of the strutting villain of a bird, which from feathered lady to feathered lady pursues his imperial pleasures, leaving it to his sleek paramours to hatch the genial product in holes and corners ...
— Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson
... still insisted, still commanded, but he could not move her. At last he gave it up and turned her over for the day's inquest to an old hand at tricks and traps and deceptive plausibilities—Beaupere, a doctor of theology. Now notice the form of this sleek strategist's first remark—flung out in an easy, offhand way that would have thrown any unwatchful person ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Volume 2 • Mark Twain
... Medlicot's Mill. He rode the nine miles in an hour, and at once entered the building in which the canes were crushed. The first man he met was Nokes, who acted as overseer, having a gang of Polynesian laborers under him—sleek, swarthy fellows from the South Sea Islands, with linen trowsers on and nothing else—who crept silently among the vats and machinery, shifting the ...
— Harry Heathcote of Gangoil • Anthony Trollope


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