sleeky
AmericanEtymology
Origin of sleeky
Example Sentences
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No amount of sleeky rhetoric or oil will ever wash the hand of those that facilitated either actively or passively the accomplishment of this inhumane feat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, I thought he was a straight-haired, sleeky, canting snake of a man.
From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard
A guid fat sow, a sleeky cow Was standing in the byre, Whilst lazy puss with mealy mouse Was playing at the fire.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Even when with heavy Plume and pall The sleeky coaches roll by, Coffin, flowers and all, He laughs, for he sees Crouched on the coffin a small Yellowy shape go by— Death, uneasy and melancholy.
From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John
When all is o'er, out to the door they run, With new comb'd sleeky hair, and glist'ning cheeks, Each with some little project in his head.
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