Sleek vs Voluble - What's the difference?
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Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy.
* Dryden
Not rough or harsh.
* Milton
That which makes smooth; varnish.
(of a person or a manner of speaking) Fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey.
* , Love's Labour's Lost , act 3, scene 1:
* 1853 , , Villette , ch. 19:
* 1904 , , The Sea Wolf , ch. 26:
Expressed readily or at length and in a fluent manner.
* 1886 , , The Minister's Charge , ch. 6:
* 1910 , , "The Reticence of Lady Anne" in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches :
* 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 9:
Easily rolling or turning; having a fluid, undulating motion.
* 1935 , , Zulu Paraclete: A Sentimental Record , Peter Davies,
(botany) Twisting and turning like a vine.
Sleek is a related term of voluble.
As adjectives the difference between sleek and voluble
is that sleek is having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy while voluble is (of a person or a manner of speaking) fluent or having a ready flow of speech; garrulous or loquacious; tonguey.As an adverb sleek
is (dated) with ease and dexterity.As a verb sleek
is to make smooth or glossy; to polish or cause to be attractive.As a noun sleek
is that which makes smooth; varnish.sleek
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Adjective
(er)- sleek hair
- So sleek her skin, so faultless was her make.
- Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek .
Noun
(-)Anagrams
* * ----voluble
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!
- What fun shone in his eyes as he recalled some of her fine speeches, and repeated them, imitating her voluble delivery!
- But Wolf Larsen seemed voluble , prone to speech as I had never seen him before.
- [H]e heard the voice of the drunken woman, now sober, poured out in voluble' remorse, and in ' voluble promise of amendment for the future, to every one who passed, if they would let her off easy.
- As a rule Lady Anne's displeasure became articulate and markedly voluble after four minutes of introductory muteness.
- In the daylit corridor he talked with voluble pains of zeal.
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- Seen from the west, their sky-line gallops away north and south like a sea-serpent in voluble motion.