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单词 sleek
释义 sleek
I. \ˈslēk\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English sleken, alteration of sliken to slick
transitive verb
1. : slick 1a, 1b, 2
2. : to cover up : gloss over
 < sleeked over … his agitated expression — J.C.Powys >
intransitive verb
: slick
II. adjective
(-er/-est)
Etymology: alteration of slick (II)
1.
 a. : smooth and shining usually from good health or attentive care
  < his sleek coat gleaming like mirror velvet — Alice Duncan-Kemp >
 also : having sleek hair or fur
  < steer and heifer calves — some of them so sleek and beefy that they had won blue ribbons — Lewis Nordyke >
 b. : being in a flourishing condition from or as if from attentive care
  < animally alive, his naked brown body so sleek with health — Christopher Isherwood >
2.
 a. : having a smooth or polished surface
  < the metal felt sleek and warm to his touch — Stuart Cloete >
 b. : being wet and slippery
  < cobbles were sleek with mud — Marguerite Steen >
3. : disagreeably ingratiating or fawning : unctuous
 < novels … in which every young man is sleek and feverish for an unattainable success — Marjory S. Douglas >
4.
 a. : gracefully proportioned : slender
  < a sleek brunette in a green dress and fur jacket — J.J.Godwin >
  < the early engines, sleek and graceful — C.J.Allen >
 b. : fashionably or luxuriously trim or elegant
  < sleek figures in expensive clothes — Green Peyton >
  < sleek establishments specializing in Peking duck — Jane Nickerson >
 c. : superficially stylish or elegant : flashy
  < radiated merely the sleek and obvious aspects — J.S.Bowman >
 d. : having slender graceful lines : streamlined
  < a long sleek car gliding away — Andrew Buchanan >
III. adverb
: sleekly
IV. noun
(-s)
: slick 1,2
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