Slippery
['slɪp(ə)rɪ] or ['slɪpəri]
Definition
(adj.) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; 'slippery sidewalks'; 'a slippery bar of soap'; 'the streets are still slippy from the rain' .
(adj.) not to be trusted; 'how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is'- James Agee .
Checker: Thomas--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
(a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
(a.) Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
(a.) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
(a.) Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.
(a.) Uncertain in effect.
(a.) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
Edited by Lilian
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Smooth, glib.[2]. Unstable, uncertain, changeable, mutable, unsteady, shaky.[3]. Treacherous, perfidious, faithless, knavish, dishonest, false.
Typed by Brian
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Smooth, glassy, lubricated, insecure, perilous, unsafe, unstable, shifty,elusive, shuffling, unprincipled, deceptive, evasive, untrustworthy, uncertain
ANT:Rough, firm, unslippery, secure, safe, stable, solid, trustworthy
Checker: Stan
Examples
- How slippery it is, Sam! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- These slippery smooth walls would give him no chance. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was hard and slippery. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- One horse had a heavy fall on the slippery rocks, and the others had narrow escapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If he'd hear to me, he wouldn't trust any on ye--slippery as eels! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He was very quick and slippery and full of electric fire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The air was filled with groans and clashing of arms--the floors were slippery with the blood of despairing and expiring wretches. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I suggested waiting through this interval on the beach, instead of on the wet and slippery surface of the rocks. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Let him take care also that he avoid in the darkness the drippings from the overhanging eaves or windows, and falling upon the slippery steps of the dim doorway he may be about to enter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This is you, who have been as slippery as an eel this last month, and as thorny as a briar-rose? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You can have no idea how dexterously he manages these slippery Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Going up the road toward home the road was smooth and slippery for a while and the ice orange from the horses until the wood-hauling track turned off. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Oh, she did look so funny, hugging the big, slippery fish, and hoping Mr. Laurence's bed in heaven would be 'aisy'. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Jown the slippery glasses, said Grandfer Cantle. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And her throat was beautifully, so beautifully soft, save that, within, he could feel the slippery chords of her life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst them down to destruction. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Waxed floor very slippery. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He's as slippery as an eel, he is. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Then there is the dancing on the slippery wine-skin, which is very amusing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I'm very stupid about studying anything, can't bear French, it's such a slippery, silly sort of language, was the brusque reply. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We got ashore among some slippery stones while we ate and drank what we had with us, and looked about. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It began with L; it was almost all l's I fancy, he went on, with a sense that he was getting hold of the slippery name. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was then conducted down stairs into the wet, slippery court, and the first things that attracted my attention were my heels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Checker: Stan