Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sleek character or appearance; smoothness and glossiness of surface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun In a
sleek manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the smooth feel of silk fabric
- noun the quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored
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Examples
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And it has a kind of sleekness and almost a sophistication that you wouldn ` t expect to get from a print.
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Or if, to tickle your vanity, someone spoke of "rich and sleek Athens," in return for that "sleekness" he would get all, because he spoke of you as he would have of anchovies in oil.
The Acharnians 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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"sleekness" he would get anything he wanted, because he spoke of you as he would have of anchovies in oil.
The Acharnians 2000
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"rich and sleek Athens," in return for that 'sleekness' he would get all, because he spoke of you as he would have of anchovies in oil.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The sleekness of the '90s produced the spillover mirage-effect infinity pool.
Swimming Pools: Out of the Blue, Into the Black Sara Ruffin Costello 2011
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Yet with all of the similarities, it still feels like the Droid is missing some of Apple's mojo; that feeling of sleekness, of coolness, that sense of technological "control" that you feel with an Apple device, that childlike enchantment of using a device that does just what you expect it to do and does it well, even though you don't really know how it does it ... its that elusive "iPhone-ism".
Gil Laroya: The Reach For iPhone-ism Continues Gil Laroya 2010
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Yet with all of the similarities, it still feels like the Droid is missing some of Apple's mojo; that feeling of sleekness, of coolness, that sense of technological "control" that you feel with an Apple device, that childlike enchantment of using a device that does just what you expect it to do and does it well, even though you don't really know how it does it ... its that elusive "iPhone-ism".
Gil Laroya: The Reach For iPhone-ism Continues Gil Laroya 2010
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Yet with all of the similarities, it still feels like the Droid is missing some of Apple's mojo; that feeling of sleekness, of coolness, that sense of technological "control" that you feel with an Apple device, that childlike enchantment of using a device that does just what you expect it to do and does it well, even though you don't really know how it does it ... its that elusive "iPhone-ism".
Gil Laroya: The Reach For iPhone-ism Continues Gil Laroya 2010
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Yet with all of the similarities, it still feels like the Droid is missing some of Apple's mojo; that feeling of sleekness, of coolness, that sense of technological "control" that you feel with an Apple device, that childlike enchantment of using a device that does just what you expect it to do and does it well, even though you don't really know how it does it ... its that elusive "iPhone-ism".
Gil Laroya: The Reach For iPhone-ism Continues Gil Laroya 2010
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As comfortable at FWD as he is at minimal techno mecca Watergate, his ever-evolving style combines the impudence of UK bass music with the sleekness and propulsion of machine-tooled techno.
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