Definitionadj. causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide
Last update: October 27, 2015
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Ice made the path slippery underfoot. [adjective]
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Don't believe what he says he's a slippery customer. [Please select]
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Painted areas are particularly slippery, especially when covered with de-icing fluid or snow. [adjective]
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Catching hermit crabs, watching bright red sticky beadlet anemones catch a passing shrimp, watching the slippery butterfish vanish beneath a rock. [adjective]
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He could not help being sadly shocked by her fatal coquetry with the traitor Carne, and slippery conduct to his own poor self. [adjective]
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The pavement was wet and slippery with the strange thin coating of greasy mud which sometimes appears suddenly in Rome even when it has not rained. [adjective]
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The roads were soft and in places very slippery; becoming much worse as we approached Albany, where we arrived at half-past three. [adjective]
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At Butler, an hour and a half later, the rain was coming down hard, and the roads were beginning to be slippery, with about two inches of mud and water. [adjective]
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Clothes, saddles, reins, were all wet, slippery, and sodden, like the ground and the fallen leaves that strewed the road. [adjective]
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CHAPTER XIII At midday on the twenty-second of October Pierre was going uphill along the muddy, slippery road, looking at his feet and at the roughness of the way. [adjective]
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