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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



... land, gashed deep where flows the Missouri. Indeed, there are many such—big, impassive, impressive in their very loneliness, in summer given over to the winds and the meadow larks and to the shadows fleeing always over the hilltops. Wild range cattle feed there and grow sleek and fat for the fall shipping of beef. At night the coyotes yap quaveringly and prowl abroad after the long-eared jack rabbits, which bounce away at their hunger-driven approach. In winter it is not good to be there; even the beasts shrink ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... like the slitting of air By a swift sharp sword— A rush of the sound; and the sleek chest broad Of black Orion Heaved, and was fixed; the dead mane waved ...
— Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War • Herman Melville
... figure, a face clean-shaven and deeply sun-burnt, and under the lifted hat caught a glimpse of sleek black hair. But when she saw his eyes, she knew his name, for they were the ...
— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming
... incomparably bright and clear: and that, too, in a country where no olive trees grew. It is said that the water of the Oxus itself is very soft and pleasant, and that it causes the skin of those who bathe in it to become sleek and glossy. Alexander was greatly delighted with this discovery, as we learn from a letter which he wrote to Antipater, in which he speaks of this as being one of the most important and manifest signs of the divine favour which had ever been vouchsafed ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch
... the required length, took a firm grip on Pirate's mane, and vaulted into the saddle. Pirate stood perfectly still. He shook his head. James talked to him and patted his sleek neck, and touched him gently with his heel. Then things livened up a bit. Pirate waltzed, reared, plunged, and started to do the pas seul on the flower-beds. Then he immediately changed his mind. He decided to ...
— The Man on the Box • Harold MacGrath


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