sleekish

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adjective

Somewhat sleek.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivesleekish (comparative more sleekish, superlative most sleekish)

comparative more sleekish · superlative most sleekish

  1. Somewhat sleek.

    Follow a sleekish young woman with blond hair.

    1988 October 14, S.L. Wisenberg, “How to Touch Michael Dukakis's Left Hand”, in Chicago Reader
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    Hast thou one laudable Alsatian glow / To compensate, commensurate, and condign / For all these dastard, sleekish qualms of mine ?

    1899, John Kendrick Bangs, The dreamers, page 128

    Mr Ernest Rowland was young, sleekish, and confident.

    1965, Brian James, The Big Burn: Short Stories, page 147

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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