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Definition: SLEEKY |
SLEEKYAdjective1. Fawning and deceitful; sly. 2. Of a sleek, or smooth, and glossy appearance. |
| Language | Translations for "SLEEKY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i lëmuar (ganoid, glace, glib, highbred, nice, polished, polite, refined, sleek, sleeken, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, soft, unruffled, waxy, well mannered), dinak (argute, artful, canny, crafty, cunning, daedalian, devious, furtive, leery, pawky, sly, wily), dhelparak (cunning, foxy, sly, slyboots). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κολακευτικόσ (adulatory, buttery, complimentary, flattering), ομιλητικόσ (chatty, communicative, conversational, homiletic, sociable, talkative, vocal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eekyslay suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douceur, dowry, dulcify, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambkin, lamblike, lenient, meekness, mellifluous, mellow, mild, piano key, placard, pleasantly, silken, sleek, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, sweet, tender), polido (attentive, cleanly cut, courtly, gentle, glossy, mannerly, neat, net, polished, polite, precise, shiny, sleek, smooth, specular, urbane, well bred, well spoken), macio (cottony, creamy, cushiony, downy, fleecy, fluffy, gentle, lithesome, mellow, sleek, slick, smooth, soft, tender), lustroso (beady, glacial, glazed brick, glazy, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, smooth, spick and span, splendent), liso (event, flat, glossy surface, hardware, lanky, level, plain, plane, sleek, slick, smooth, unruffled). (various references) гладкий (clean, even, glace, glassy, glib, lank, level, lubricous, sleek, sleeken, slick, smooth, unruffled). (various references) mek (gentle, soft, tender), lukav (arch, artful, astute, cagey, cagy, canny, captious, crafty, cunning, designing, insidious, leery, perfidious, shrewd, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), gladak (even, fine, glib, level, napless, slick, smooth). (various references) astuto (artful, astute, cannie, canny, clever, colic, crafty, cunning, deep, devious, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, malicious, mischievous, nasty, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, slick, sly, smart, tricky, vicious, wide, wily, worldly wise), alisado (facing, finish, making good, sleeking, slicking, smoothing, trimming). (various references) улесливий (adulatory, bland, candied, fawning, honeyed, obsequious, oily, silky, suave, wheedling), гладенький (smooth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-k-l-s-y" | |
-1 letter: keels, leeks, seely, sleek, yelks. | |
-2 letters: eels, eely, ekes, elks, else, eyes, keel, keys, leek, lees, leke, leks, leys, lyes, lyse, seek, seel, skee, syke, yelk. | |
-3 letters: eel, eke, elk, els, eye, key, lee, lek, ley, lye, see, sel, sky, sly, yes. | |
-4 letters: el, es, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-k-l-s-y" | |
+1 letter: keyless, sleekly. | |
+2 letters: eyestalk, keyholes, yokeless. | |
+3 letters: berserkly, eyestalks, yarmelkes. | |
+4 letters: fecklessly, flyspecked, leukocytes, newsweekly, recklessly, semiweekly, skeletally. | |
+5 letters: honeysuckle, yokefellows. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4C 45 45 4B 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .-.. . . -.- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001100 01000101 01000101 01001011 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S L E E K Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004C 0045 0045 004B 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)534639394559 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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