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sheeny

[shee-nee] / ˈʃi ni /


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Its pink-and-green neon parrot sign lit the way to some of the most satisfying chili cheese fries I’ve ever eaten: crinkle-cut potatoes, sheeny Velveeta-yellow cheese sauce, chili ladled from a mini-crockpot in the back.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2025

So: The sharp, sheeny person doing step-and-repeats at the Tonys?

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2023

Distressed denim, the punk exuberance and corsetry of Vivienne Westwood’s heyday and lashings of Americana references — like a loose sheeny biker jacket — defined the often-saleable 31-look display.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

The brand, whose sheeny razzmatazz attracted stars including Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren in its 60s and 70s heyday, seemed to have found in Theyskens the right ambassador.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2022

There he found Nod, floating like a sheeny bubble in his puffed-out sheep's-jacket on the icy water.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

In due time Sophia was delivered of a child, which the midwives examined and found to be a girl with a face sheenier than the moon.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

It was triumph and victory and paean in action to go flashing along over this footing, smoother than polished marble and sheenier than first-water gems.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various

O thou sheeniest Sun who in night dost shine!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

O thou sheeniest Sun who m night dost shine, viii.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton


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