sleek
1 Americanadjective
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smooth or glossy, as hair, an animal, etc.
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well-fed or well-groomed.
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trim and graceful; finely contoured; streamlined.
a sleek sports car.
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smooth in manners, speech, etc.; suave.
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cleverly or deceitfully skillful; slick.
a sleek confidence man.
verb (used with object)
adjective
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smooth and shiny; polished
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polished in speech or behaviour; unctuous
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(of an animal or bird) having a shiny healthy coat or feathers
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(of a person) having a prosperous appearance
verb
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to make smooth and glossy, as by grooming, etc
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(usually foll by over) to cover (up), as by making more agreeable; gloss (over)
Other Word Forms
- sleeker noun
- sleekly adverb
- sleekness noun
- sleeky adjective
Etymology
Origin of sleek1
First recorded in 1580–90; variant of slick
Origin of sleek2
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English sleken, variant of slick
Example Sentences
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The design is sleek and simple, with a pink-and-white ombré paint job, the company’s name printed in lowercase, and a keypad for loading and unloading the cargo area.
From Los Angeles Times
What he may sacrifice in culinary experimentation, he more than makes up for as a tavern keeper by tapping into a sense of community he couldn’t find in the sleek kitchens of New York.
“From the Swiss steel framework and sleek fixtures to the fiber cement exterior panels that can go more than 50 years without maintenance, everything was designed to last.”
From MarketWatch
Its rays passed above the clouds, and the clouds, in turn, brushed shadows onto the sleek surfaces of the iceberg and the surrounding water.
From Literature
"Europe's security under construction" boasts the slogan on an eye-catching set of sleek black-and-white photographs, festooned across a scaffolding-clad church on one of this town's best known pedestrian boulevards.
From BBC
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