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Synonyms for sleek
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : sleek |
Phonetic Transcription : slik |
Définition of sleek
Origin :- 1580s, variant of Middle English slike (see slick (adj.)). Originally of healthy-looking animal hair; applied to persons 1630s, with sense of "plump and smooth-skinned." Figurative meaning "slick, fawning, flattering" is from 1590s.
- adj smooth, glossy
- And Mr. Beaufort patted the sleek neck of his favourite hunter.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- His complexion was pale and sodden, and his hair short, dark, and sleek.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Men led up the sleek cattle to be slain for the feast of the gods.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
- "That's part of my business," he heard Burnham say in his sleek, oleaginous accents.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- With these steeds, so well fitted for hunting, were twelve sleek, fleet hounds.
- Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
- She stroked the sleek necks of the colts and handed them bunches of grass.
- Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
- So did his person, which was sleek though free from corpulency.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- The door opened and in walked Mike with the sleek goose under his arm.
- Extract from : « The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys » by Gulielma Zollinger
- Grip soon recovered his looks, and became as glossy and sleek as ever.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- If he had suffered in the midst of all that sleek fatness, he had deserved to suffer.
- Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
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