slithery
IPA: sɫˈɪðɝi
adjective
- That slithers; that moves like a snake.
- Sneaky, underhanded; insincere.
- Slippery, causing one to slither.
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Examples of "slithery" in Sentences
- He locked the door, but the slithery thing was trying to get in...
- I heard whispering - and a kind of slithery noise - but that's all.
- I can garauntee that this slithery, unpleasant character is indeed that.
- That seems to be what the Right is saying with every slithery move it makes.
- There were a few days of rain and wet snow that made the county road a slithery mass of greasy mud.
- He does this, with difficulty, and wraps a whip around its snout, then putting some kind of slithery creature into its ear that tames it.
- Before you get carried away, admit - as the Independent's Michael Coveney does - that the "slithery" Atkinson "can't sing very well, and keeps missing the beat".
- I'd rather have an honest gay who is comfortable with his/her sexuality than a slithery, snaky, whiny, hypocritical, philandering, lying, thieving mark snafu-rd for my governonr.
- Then there's Potter's other tools of the trade: blonde bangs, glittery ankle-high shoes with killer stilettos and those "Ooh La La" long legs in a slithery, sparkly, silvery mini-dress that seem made for each other.
- While these vibrantly hued python totes are nowhere near as slithery or deadly as Casati's writhing ornaments, they're sure to draw attention, especially when worn against the dark palettes favored in the chilly months.
- If the remake, with Nicolas Cage as a rogue cop named Terence McDonagh, commits the sin of entertainment, it's redeemed by a sense of life's contradictions and distinguished by surreal flourishes that include a pair of iguanas, slithery witnesses to Terence's mania.