Sleek Film Of Oil Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "SLICK" which means:

noun
• • A slippery smoothness
• • A magazine printed on good quality paper
• • A film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
• • A trowel used to make a surface slick
adjective satellite
• • Made slick by e.g. ice or grease
• • Superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
• • Having only superficial plausibility
• • Having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk
• • Marked by skill in deception
verb
• • Make slick or smooth
• • Give a smooth and glossy appearance
adjective
• • Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
• • Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
• • Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
• • (often used sarcastically) clever, making an apparently hard task easy.
• • Extraordinarily great or special.
• • Sleek; smooth

An example sentence would be:

• • "The roads were slick after the rain."
• • "He combed back his slick hair."

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