What's the difference between glossy and sleek?

Glossy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
  • (superl.) Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
  • (2) About 20,000 of those glossy programmes are normally sold for a big occasion at Manchester United but for this game almost four times that number had been produced.
  • (3) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
  • (4) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
  • (5) Photograph: Martin Godwin They say: Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Condé Nast: "Given the current economic climate, it is reassuring that glossy magazines are still selling in considerable numbers.
  • (6) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
  • (7) Beyond the sumptuous lifestyle spreads in glossies or the gift-strewn shop windows at Harrods and Selfridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop website , shows like Downton Abbey keep us in thrall to the idea of moolah, mansions and autocratic power.
  • (8) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
  • (9) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
  • (10) The launch - from five sites across the US in partnership with Canadian media group Quebecor - will bring him into direct competition with the giants of the glossy world of American publishing, like Time Inc and Condé Nast.
  • (11) For people who don’t care about pop music or the fashion industry, it’s just another month of glossy magazines.
  • (12) Asos also publishes a glossy magazine with circulation of 470,000 – more than Glamour , Grazia or even the giveaway Stylist .
  • (13) Louise Chunn, the former editor of Good Housekeeping and InStyle, is the new editor of upmarket "thinking women's glossy" magazine Psychologies.
  • (14) However, Condé Nast insiders say Greig's resignation is expected within days and the glossy magazine publisher's managing director, Nicolas Coleridge, is understood to be discreetly searching for a replacement Tatler editor.
  • (15) In addition to glossiness, color coordinates in the CIELAB color scale and surface roughness were measured.
  • (16) When you subscribe to the Daily Telegraph you get so much extra: “extra, extra every day”, says the glossy new TV commercial for Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney tabloid.
  • (17) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
  • (18) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
  • (19) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
  • (20) Don't place too much authority on universities' glossy photos and grinning case studies – they're adverts.

Sleek


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair.
  • (superl.) Not rough or harsh.
  • (adv.) With ease and dexterity.
  • (n.) That which makes smooth; varnish.
  • (v. t.) To make even and smooth; to render smooth, soft, and glossy; to smooth over.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The gates may be open but the road to the church that calls itself a friendship and reconciliation centre is not paved with sleek cars or thronged with believers.
  • (2) And this as we learn that GCHQ, in all its technological majesty, can scoop up every last word that passes through those sleek cables beneath the Atlantic, everything we say and every last key that our fingers stroke.
  • (3) The unfairly maligned camel is a model of sleek, practical and elegant design compared with the clumsy creature the coalition has produced.
  • (4) Already known internationally for its food and its glittering annual film festival, the city will feature choral groups in the open air and an art project, Waves of Energy, bringing to life a surge of ideas suggested by the public, as well as performances and exhibitions inside sleek venues such as Basque music’s new home, Musikene, the San Telmo museum or the cube-shaped Kursaal on the edge of the sea.
  • (5) Scott delivered a film that glamorised the sleek contours of the military hardware and is powered by rapid-fire editing and a big-hair, big-shoulderpads pop soundtrack, making it one of the quintessential 80s films.
  • (6) Grilled meats ( txuleta means chop) are where he excels, but at the sleek interior bar you can also order flawlessly presented pintxos of seasonal produce.
  • (7) The issue with existing batteries is that they suck,” Elon Musk , chief executive of Tesla, said in May at the launch of the Powerwall , a sleek new battery.
  • (8) In a whir of lycra and straining calf muscles, the sleek, bent bodies flashed past, urged on by the crowds.
  • (9) These two saunas both boast the sleek, angular lines of Nordic architecture, and are built from ecologically friendly materials.
  • (10) After a false start in 2006 with a bill that was killed by parliament for being too weak, he launched a sleek new vehicle – “Turning the Corner” – in March 2007, with new emissions targets for each sector of the economy, crucially including oil and gas.
  • (11) Try, Robot: Darpa contest sends new humanoids into 'nuclear reactor' Read more On Saturday evening, with their sleek humanoid robot DRC-Hubo, a team of roboticists and engineers from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Korea, won $2m from the R&D arm of the US defense department, Darpa, by outperforming 24 other robots in a simulated nuclear reactor.
  • (12) Photograph: Joha Gronvall In search of other public saunas in Helsinki I visited Kulttuurisauna , a sleek, modernist eco-sauna designed in 2013 by Tuomas Toivonen and Nene Tsuboi in the heart of the Merihaka district; and then to the other extreme, the tiny, self-service Sompasauna shacks on the banks of the Gulf Of Finland in the so-called Freezone of Sompasaari (a kind of Mad Max hinterland full of junk yards and disused buildings covered in graffiti).
  • (13) The Model 3 looks like a shorter version of the Model S, with a similar sleek profile, elongated hood and a panoramic glass roof.
  • (14) Just like iPhones and Kindles before it, the stylish and sleek iPad is becoming increasingly easy to spot in subway cars or on park benches across New York.
  • (15) Academics respond: Brexit would weaken UK university research and funding Read more “Certainly, few people here thought the outcome would have any major impact on their work,” said Vandevyver, a Belgian, sitting in a conference room on the school’s sleek, modernist campus on the city outskirts.
  • (16) The negative publicity - at odds with the company's sleek designs and 'Just Do It' slogan - has seen the sales of its trainers plummet.
  • (17) I’m staying at Hossan Lomakeskus , with accommodation in sleek wooden huts with floor-to-ceiling windows and uninterrupted views of Hossa lake.
  • (18) They chanted slogans and held up signs as a small, select group of people arrived in sleek sports cars and were ushered inside the relatively modest residence where the billionaire lives with his wife, Priscilla Chan.
  • (19) While most British Muslims can relate to having to buy a few essentials before Ramadan – dates, new hijabs, a sleek new abaya – for the vast majority of us, who are, to say the least, very unlikely to have a Harrods Rewards card, the idea of going on a vast Ramadan shopping spree is an alien concept.
  • (20) Take the sleek blue tram to rue Achard and, as you get off, you find yourself facing a squat terrace of abandoned houses.