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Sleek

adjective
(compar. sleeker; superl. sleekest)
1.
Well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed.
2.
Designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow.  Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, streamlined.
3.
Having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light.  Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, slick.  "Satiny gardenia petals" , "Sleek black fur" , "Silken eyelashes" , "Silky skin" , "A silklike fabric" , "Slick seals and otters"
verb
(past & past part. sleeked;pres. part. sleeking)
1.
Make slick or smooth.  Synonym: slick.



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"Sleek" Quotes from Famous Books



... and he came up the drive with that rolling action peculiar to his kind, but which takes one over the road very rapidly. A white fleck of foam spotted the pacer's shiny chest. He was sleek and handsome, but with his rolling, unblinded eyes and his red nostrils, he looked ready to bolt ...
— Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr

... is a fire that can be fed from day to day and be piled up ever higher as the wintry years draw nigh. Old men and women can sit by it with their thin hands clasped, the little children can nestle down in front, the friend and neighbor has his welcome corner by its side, and even shaggy Fido and sleek Titty can toast ...
— Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome

... presented to him, and he began to picture horses, too. That he knew horses and loved them is evidenced in many a picture. In every village or crossroads town of America can be found copies of his "Shoeing," where stands the sleek bay mare, the sober, serious donkey, ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard

... well worth watching. It is the week of the International Horse Show, and there are many foreign officers in gaily-coloured uniforms, mounted on sleek and beautiful thoroughbreds, cantering along amidst a throng of more soberly ...
— Bandit Love • Juanita Savage

... 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 ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower


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