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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



... think you were in a French town, so many are the agriculturists, and so quiet and solid the evidence of their wellbeing. They own their farms, they love good horses, their wagons are built like ships, and their cattle, as aboriginal as the county families, might be the embodiment of the sleek genius of those hills and meadows, so famous are they for cream. The people of that country live well. They know their worth and the substance which they add to the strength of the British community. And they pride themselves on the legends, ...
— Waiting for Daylight • Henry Major Tomlinson
... going to start next day it was decided to let the horses graze in peace with the oxen, which, after a fortnight's rest, looked sleek-coated and in far better condition; but Peter, Dirk, and Dinny were bidden to keep a strict watch over the cattle, for just before starting the General announced that he had seen a lion-spoor, apparently ...
— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn
... coarse, sensuous lips, and hair elaborately and carefully powdered; the other pale and thin-lipped, with the keen eyes of a ferret and a high intellectual forehead, from which the sleek brown ...
— The Elusive Pimpernel • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... the presence of the Beneficent Spirit. For day followed day, and night followed night, and Ahtik's flesh and blood put into Neewa and Miki a strength and growth that developed marvellously. By the fourth day Neewa had become so fat and sleek that he was half again as big as on the day he fell out of the canoe. Miki had begun to fill out. His ribs could no longer be counted from a distance. His chest was broadening and his legs were losing some of their ...
— Nomads of the North - A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars • James Oliver Curwood
... was rapidly filling when they entered and made their way to the table reserved for them. With keen interest Esther looked about her at the groups of sleek, well-dressed people, English, French, Russian, Italian. There was a large party of Americans who had crossed on the same boat with Roger. Their voices rang out, their R's smacked of the Middle-West, Mommer and Popper seeing Europe, accompanied by a brace ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell


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