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sleekish

sleekish adjective: somewhat sleek.

Adjective

sleekish (comparative more sleekish, superlative most sleekish)

  1. Somewhat sleek.
    • 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

Forms of sleekish

comparativemore sleekish
superlativemost sleekish

Origin of sleekish

From sleek + -ish.

Questions about sleekish

What does sleekish mean?
Sleekish means somewhat sleek.
What part of speech is sleekish?
Sleekish is an adjective.

Words near sleekish in the dictionary

  1. sleekest
  2. sleekier
  3. sleekiest
  4. sleeking
  5. sleekings
  6. sleekish
  7. sleekit
  8. sleekly
  9. sleekness
  10. sleeknesses
  11. sleeks

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