sleek over


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Verb1.sleek over - cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes"
hush up, whitewash, gloss over
cover up, cover - hide from view or knowledge; "The President covered the fact that he bugged the offices in the White House"
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sleek

adjective
1. Smooth and lustrous as if polished:
satiny, silken, silky.
2. Having slender and graceful lines:
streamlined, trim.
3. Affectedly and self-servingly earnest:
fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous.
verb
To give a gleaming luster to, usually through friction:
buff, burnish, furbish, glaze, gloss, polish, shine.
phrasal verb
sleek over
To conceal or make light of a fault or offense:
explain away, extenuate, gloss over, gloze (over), palliate, whitewash.
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