sleeky
adjective
sleek; smooth.
sleeked
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a variation of
sleeky.
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past participleof sleek.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
sleekadjectivesmooth or glossy, as hair, an animal, etc. -
past tense formof sleek.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
sleekadjectivesmooth or glossy, as hair, an animal, etc.
Example Sentences
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Takisha Sturdivant-Drew sleeked Kerry Washington’s coat; and Amy Adams, Naomi Campbell, and Heidi Klum, who was coiffed by Andy Lecompte, joined her with forays into flattening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2017
From western ranges, where the feed is scanty, cattle are moving by the hungry thousands to corn-rich Missouri, Iowa and eastern Kansas, there to be stuffed and sleeked for market.
From Time Magazine Archive
He sleeked his hair, put on spats, became meticulous about his clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
So now, with the Bluebird sleeked with new paint, he went down for the launching.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
He picked it up, and as he handed it to her he stared into her face, and sleeked his little moustache above a furtive, objectionable smile.
From The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur by May Sinclair
