sleek
adjective
smooth or glossy, as hair, an animal, etc.
sleekness
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a word derived from
sleek.
Example Sentences
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The spy writing and the sleekness of the politics and the sleekness of the storytelling in there and the scale of the issues for the characters that came up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025
Over more than 500 pages, the book’s sleekness bends toward slickness and the magic toward tricks.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
Set in the mid-1990s and in limited supply of the visual sleekness that distinguishes so much of Apple’s programming, it often looks and feels like a throwback.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
The dogs holding back out of strange respect for their sleekness, their sharpness, their airborne exits.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2020
A lawyer and a former private detective with the Burns agency, Davis had a groomed sleekness.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
