slippery
IPA: sɫˈɪpɝi
adjective
- Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
- (figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
- (obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
- Unstable; changeable; inconstant.
- (obsolete) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
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Examples of "slippery" in Sentences
- The stage floor was wet and slippery.
- The edge of shore is rocky and slippery.
- The slippery slope potentialities are myriad.
- In addition, the field was frozen and slippery.
- Cambodia was on the slippery slope to the abyss.
- The fallacy is similar to the slippery slope argument.
- The lack of moss actually makes the pipe more slippery.
- The ball was a slippery leather unlike the American ball.
- Commas are as slippery as eels and as ineradicable as cockroaches.
- At the eastern end, the climb to the shore is steep and slippery if wet.
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