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Meaning of sleeky | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
ˈsliːki

Definitions

  1. sleek; slick
  2. slick; sly; untrustworthy

Examples

“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.”
“He thought that the moulting season was over, and that he was rejoicing in the fulness of a sleeky plumage, and by his side was a Java sparrowess, chirping and hopping about, rendering the cage as populous to him as though he were the tenant of a bird-fancier's shop.”
“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.”
“Why, I thought he was a straight-haired, sleeky, canting snake of a man.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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