Sleek Over (Verb)
Meaning
Cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes".
Classification
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling.
Examples
- The audit revealed a deliberate attempt to sleek over discrepancies in the company's financial records.
- The politician struggled to sleek over the scandal by downplaying its significance to the public.
- She tried to sleek over her mistake, but it was clear to her colleagues that she was at fault.
- He attempted to sleek over his tardiness by blaming it on the traffic, but his boss didn't buy it.
- The company's PR team worked overtime to sleek over the product's design flaws by focusing on its other features.