| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | To give a gleaming luster to, usually through friction: buff1, burnish, furbish, glaze, gloss, polish, shine. See LIGHT. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having slender and graceful lines: streamlined, trim. See BEAUTIFUL. 2. Smooth and lustrous as if polished: satiny, silken, silky. See SMOOTH. 3. Affectedly and self-servingly earnest: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous. See ATTITUDE, HONEST. | | PHRASAL VERB: | sleek over To conceal or make light of a fault or offense: explain away, extenuate, gloss over, gloze (over), palliate, whitewash. See SHOW.
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