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sleeky

American  
[slee-kee] / ˈsli ki /
Scot., sleeked

adjective

sleekier, sleekiest

  1. sleek; smooth.

  2. Chiefly Scot. sly; sneaky.

Etymology

Origin of sleeky

First recorded in 1715–25; sleek 1 + -y 1

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

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.

From Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters by Baillie, Joanna

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

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

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