sleeky

No amount of sleeky rhetoric or oil will ever wash the hand of those that facilitated either actively or passively the accomplishment of this inhumane feat.

From Time Magazine Archive

A guid fat sow, a sleeky cow Was standing in the byre, Whilst lazy puss with mealy mouse Was playing at the fire.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

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.

From Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters by Joanna Baillie

A good fat sow, a sleeky cow, Are standing in the byre; While winking puss, wi' mealy mou', Is playing round the fire.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

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.

From Poems New and Old by John Freeman