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Sleekness

noun
1.
The quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored.
2.
The smooth feel of silk fabric.  Synonym: silkiness.





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"Sleekness" Quotes from Famous Books



... murderous tumour lay revealed. In itself it was a pretty thing—ivory white, with a mesh of blue veins, and curving gently from jaw to chest. But the lean, yellow face and the stringy throat were in horrible contrast with the plumpness and sleekness of this monstrous growth. The surgeon placed a hand on each side of it and pressed it slowly backwards ...
— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle
... his scarf and smoothed his hair. Even his paleness and the childlike terror with which he looked up at the stairs as he took off his coat did not detract from his dignity nor diminish the air of sleekness, health, and aplomb which ...
— The Schoolmaster and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... the road in this way, our furniture mean time having been shipped by water, a very compact and knotty young man rides up behind us upon a nag which we at once identify as church property. The sleekness of the flanks betokens his conversance with other people's corn-cribs, and he has a habit of shying at all the farm-house gates as if habituated to stopping whenever he liked and staying to dinner. His Perseus has a semi-gallant, semi-verdant way of lifting his hat, ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend
... think," said Rupert, with a sardonic sleekness, "that Lieutenant Keith wants to speak to you. We have come in by ...
— The Club of Queer Trades • G. K. Chesterton
... certain childish exultation in the plenty of the farm, amid the general rationing. The possession of her seven milch cows, the daily pleasure of the milk, morning and evening, the sight of the rich separated cream, and of the butter as it came fresh from the churn, the growing weight and sleekness of the calves; all these things gave her a warm sense of protection against the difficulties and restrictions of the war. She and Janet were "self-suppliers." No need to bother about ounces of butter, or ...
— Harvest • Mrs. Humphry Ward


Words linked to "Sleekness" :   visual aspect, smoothness, appearance, sleek


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