[
US
/ˈsɫik/
]
[ UK /slˈiːk/ ]
[ UK /slˈiːk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed
sleek figures in expensive clothes -
having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light
slick seals and otters
glossy auburn hair
a silklike fabric
satiny gardenia petals
silky skin
sleek black fur
silken eyelashes -
designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to fluid flow
a streamlined convertible
VERB
- make slick or smooth
How To Use sleek In A Sentence
- The reefs close to shore are alive with pollack, and conger eels when the boat is anchored and during the summer months there are lots of the sleek and fast running blue sharks around.
- This wonder product keeps brows looking sleek all day. The Sun
- She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
- It was sleek and aerodynamic, shone in his room like a light bulb.
- I was in a unique position to write these stories for a Western audience stories about the farm and the old feudal ways, the dissolving feudal order and the new way coming, the sleek businessmen from the cities. Daniyal Mueenuddin talks about his life and his first collection of short stories In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.
- Among the sofas I encounter a perspex case containing a sleek-looking chair.
- This wonder product keeps brows looking sleek all day. The Sun
- A sleekit character with a reconstructed nose, no hair, paramilitary tattoos. The Bloomsday Dead
- This wonder product keeps brows looking sleek all day. The Sun
- It is an image of a sleek chrome bullet-train of genre dragging up dead leaves and detritus from the mainstream tracks as it rockets relentlessly forward. Why Do I Infernokrush?
