sleeky

Example Sentences

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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 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 Warner, Susan

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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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 Freeman, John

Why, I thought he was a straight-haired, sleeky, canting snake of a man.

From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard