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n. - Offensive terms for a Jew adj. - Reflecting light.

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Usage examples (33)
  • I love the way that they are black but often, at certain angles, look sandy brown or, stranger still, a kind of sheeny silver.
  • One of the five bushes has a very deep red bloom, the deepest red I've seen, almost becoming a kind of sheeny, velvety black down each petal.
  • Or words to that effect, but he definitely used 'sheeny', as I reacted at the time.
  • He was not sure that he could manage the "sheeny," and he did not mean to take any chances with his district; let the
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