unsleek
English
Etymology
From un- + sleek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʌnˈsliːk/
Adjective
unsleek (comparative more unsleek, superlative most unsleek)
- Not sleek, the opposite of sleek; rough.
- 1874, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King:
- Then she that saw him lying unsleek, unshorn, Gaunt as it were the skeleton of himself, Uttered a little tender dolorous cry.
- 1997 September 5, Mark Swartz, “Rebuilding the Material World”, in Chicago Reader:
- Bruce Nauman uses neon not to advertise a product or service but to make absurd or insulting proclamations, and his fiberglass is heavy and unsleek.
- 2007 April 2, Virginia Heffernan, “The Onion Speaks, and Sounds Familiar”, in New York Times:
- Photographs of the unsleek, inland-dwelling and mostly male clique that, with various cast shifts, has developed the Onion sensibility over 20 years, beginning at the University of Wisconsin, reveal a Midwestern chain gang that seems to know exactly what they’re about.
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Anagrams
- Luekens