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Slippery

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Adjective

1. slippery, slippy

causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide

Example Sentences:
'slippery sidewalks'
'a slippery bar of soap'
'the streets are still slippy from the rain'

2. slippery, tricky

not to be trusted

Example Sentences:
'how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Slippery

see synonyms of slippery
adjective
1. 
causing or tending to cause objects to slip
a slippery road
2. 
liable to slip from the grasp, a position, etc
3. 
not to be relied upon; cunning and untrustworthy
a slippery character
4. 
(esp of a situation) liable to change; unstable
5.  slippery slope

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Slippery

see synonyms of slippery
adjectiveWord forms: ˈslipperier or ˈslipperiest
1. 
causing or liable to cause sliding or slipping, as a wet, waxed, or greasy surface
2. 
tending to slip away, as from a grasp
3. 
not reliable or trustworthy; deceitful
4. 
subject to change
a slippery situation
5.  Obsolete
immoral

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Slippery

see synonyms of slippery
adj. slip·per·i·er, slip·per·i·est
1. Causing or tending to cause sliding or slipping: a slippery sidewalk.
2. Tending to slip, as from one's grasp: a slippery bar of soap.
3. Not trustworthy; elusive or tricky: "How extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is" (James Agee).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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