SLEEKED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

sleeked

verb

past tense of sleek

as in slicked

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The singer sported geometric studs that stood out, especially since Lipa wore her hair slicked back into a chic bun.

— Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2026
Tender lettuces are slicked with a scallion-buttermilk dressing.

— Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of slicked

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Even a side order of Southern collard greens comes as a surprise, cooked until tender, then glossed with butter rather than swimming in potlikker.

— John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
Scotland glossed up the scoreline with two more tries in the last six minutes by Cummings and Dobie again to send home a crowd of 55,000 happy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026

Definition of glossed

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Brewster-walker guides me up a back road to a grassy knoll dotted with gravestones polished smooth by the salt breeze.

— Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2026
As part of the extensive refurbishment, the vehicle was rid of some aftermarket add-ons and had its exterior smoothed out and polished to a brilliant, like-new shine.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of polished

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Have you ever been locked out of an account while using a VPN, or found a solution that smoothed things out?

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Facilities that once smoothed a few weeks of timing now sometimes carry a portfolio for months, occasionally across an entire fundraising cycle.

— Peter Doyle, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of smoothed

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Yakuza gangs also burnished their reputation by helping ordinary citizens with problems that the authorities couldn’t or didn’t wish to handle.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Since opening its doors in 1876, literary lions including Somerset Maugham, Noël Coward, and Graham Greene have helped create the hotel's seductive reputation, which was recently burnished by cameos in the third season of The White Lotus.

— Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of burnished

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Proceedings opened this week in a case that’s shone a spotlight on Japan’s treatment of juvenile suspects.

— Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Near the end of the event in August, ceremonial shovels stuck into the earth shone in the sun behind Williams.

— Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

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