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sheeny
1[ shee-nee ]
adjective
- shining; lustrous.
sheeny
2[ shee-nee ]
noun
- a contemptuous term used to refer to a Jew.
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Example Sentences
Of course me an' Sheeny Joe knows I'm a liar, but what's a lie or two when you're helpin' out a shipmate?
Between two smirking waxen women in sheeny drapery he saw that which brought him to a pause and set him gazing.
Over the rosy skirts of Eos hung a full and heavy robe of swelling grey and black clouds, edged with a fringe of sheeny gold.
There was another fellow there, representing Burnstein, a regular hook-nosed sheeny, but he wasn't in it.
Silent and abstracted, I looked into the brooding disk of sheeny sky, my eyes dream-troubled.
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