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slippery

adjective

1 slippery

Causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide:
— Slippery sidewalks.
— A slippery bar of soap.

synonym: slippy.

Roget 940: dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous; fraudulent etc. 545; knavish; disgraceful etc. (disreputable) 974; wicked etc. ... show more

Roget 705: easy, facile; feasible etc. (practicable) 470; easily managed, easily accomplished; within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to.    manageable, ... show more

Roget 665: in danger etc. n.; endangered etc. v.; fraught with danger; dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous; unsafe, unprotected ... show more

Roget 475: uncertain; casual; random etc. (aimless) 621; changeable etc. 149.    doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, ... show more

Roget 355: unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, ... show more

Roget 111: transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying etc. v.; fugacious, ... show more

Roget 255: smooth; polished etc. v.; leiodermatous, slick, velutinous; even; level etc. 213; plane etc. ... show more

Dutch: glibberig
Polish: śliski

2 slippery

Not to be trusted:
— How extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.

synonym: tricky.


Moby thesaurus: Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adipose, ambidextrous, amoral, arch, artful, astute, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, cagey, calculating, canny, changeable, chiseling, chrismal, chrismatory, clever ... show more.

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