See sleek in American Heritage Dictionary 4 Synonyms
sleek glossy satiny silken silky slick
These adjectives mean having a smooth gleaming surface: sleek black fur; glossy auburn hair; satiny gardenia petals; silken butterfly wings; silky skin; slick otters.
See sleek in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Smooth and lustrous as if polished:
satiny, silken, silky. See smoothHaving slender and graceful lines:
streamlined, trim. See beautifulAffectedly and self-servingly earnest:
fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous. See attitude, honest
verb
To give a gleaming luster to, usually through friction:
buff1, burnish, furbish, glaze, gloss, polish, shine. See light
phrasal verb sleek overTo conceal or make light of a fault or offense:
explain away, extenuate, gloss over, gloze (over), palliate, whitewash. See show
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