Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a sleek or smooth appearance.
- Sly; cunning; fawning; deceitful: as, a sleeky knave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance.
- adjective Scot. Fawning and deceitful; sly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
sleek ,slick
Etymologies
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Examples
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(Soundbite of music) Ms. CASSANDRA WILSON: (Singing) A soft and sleeky you get when you're walking through a crowded space.
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A good fat sow, a sleeky cow was standing in the byre
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Why, I thought he was a straight-haired, sleeky, canting snake of a man.
The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903
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"Or members o 'session," said sleeky Carment of the Kirkland, who had twice escaped the stool of repentance on the ground that, as he urged upon the body, "gleds [hawks] shouldna pike gleds een oot."
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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With new comb'd sleeky hair, and glist'ning cheeks,
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Office 2007 brought the sexy and sleeky ribbon interface for Windows users but not for Mac.
MacBytes.com 2010
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Office 2007 brought the sexy and sleeky ribbon interface for Windows users but not for Mac.
MacBytes.com 2010
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1 Sticks black coatstand, £100 Declutter the hall in sleeky minimalist style heals.co.uk
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