sleek over

1. 1.

   cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error

   “Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin”

   “She tried to gloss over her mistakes”

   Synonymswhitewashgloss overhush up

   Broadercover

Questions about sleek over

What does sleek over mean?

sleek over means "cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error".

What is another word for sleek over?

Close synonyms include whitewash, gloss over, hush up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sleek over a common word?

sleek over is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.