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

Example sentences :

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

Antonyms for sleek

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