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 term slippery slope is a cliche," Slive said.
- -0 / +2This here is what we call a slippery slope.
- 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.
- The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has tentacles in slippery abundance.
- The mayor describes the union tactics as “thuggish” so you engage in slippery logic, to say the least.
- The mayor describes the union tactics as “thuggish†so you engage in slippery logic, to say the least.
- You know, people always use the term slippery slope when it comes to ethical arguments, and I think it applies here as well.
- It has a torque-sensing limited-slip front differential to give more traction in slippery conditions, and has a full diff-lock option for seriously rugged terrain.
- People need to go back to manual transmissions – they are also quite a bit better to drive in slippery conditions, because you have better control over the wheel speed.
- They're fearful of what they refer to as a slippery slope, that with that precedent, that society might wind up going after other categories of weapons and munitions that could fall under the same kind of a logic like clustered munitions.