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
The lish baby otter Is sleeky and streaming, With catching bright fishes, Ere babies learn dreaming; But no wet little otter Is ever so warm As the fleecy-wrapt baby 'Twixt me and my arm.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
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 good fat sow, a sleeky cow, Are standing in the byre; While winking puss, wi' mealy mou', Is playing round the fire.
From The Wide, Wide World by Warner, Susan
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
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