Crossword-Solution: SLEEKNESS 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Sleekness n. The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and
glossiness of surface.

We have 6 clues for the answer “SLEEKNESS”

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Greyhound's quality 1 answer
Sports car quality 1 answer
Streamlined quality 1 answer
Glossiness 2 answers
Smooth, lustrous quality 2 answers
Gloss 62 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SLEEKNESS (5)

But the lean, yellow face and the stringy throat were in horrible contrast with the plumpness and sleekness of this monstrous growth.
Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
But appearances are often deceptive when they least seem so, and the truth is that, notwithstanding his extreme sleekness, he was rendered uneasy in his mind and exceedingly uncomfortable by a constant apprehension that beset him night and day.
Master Humphrey's Clock Charles Dickens 2013
Yet these cares did not in the least interfere with Mr Carker’s watching of his chief, or with his cleanness, neatness, sleekness, or any cat-like quality he possessed.
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1997
The knight was mounted on a spirited charger; brother Michael on a large heavy-trotting horse; and the little fat friar on a plump soft-paced galloway, so correspondent with himself in size, rotundity, and sleekness, that if they had been amalgamated into a centaur, there would have been nothing to alter in their proportions.
Maid Marian Thomas Love Peacock 1997
Under his hat, worn with a slight backward tilt, his hair had been carefully brushed into respectful sleekness; for his business was with an Embassy.
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 1997

Quotes with SLEEKNESS (3)

What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the…
Doris Lessing Old Age of El Magnifico
It is not enough to say the crow flies purposefully, or heavily, or rowingly, or whatever. There are no words to capture the infinite depth of crowiness in the crow's flight. All we can do is use a word as an indicator, or a whole bunch of words as a general directive. But the ominous thing in the crow's flight, the bare-faced, bandit thing, the tattered beggarly gipsy thing, the caressing and shaping yet slightly clumsy gesture of the down-stroke, as if the wings were both t…
Ted Hughes Poetry in the Making: An Anthology
Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.
Tahir Shah House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, WSJ.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (2000–2016).