slippery as an eel

adjective

Roget 702: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful etc. 698; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing etc. v.; strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving^†; artificial; tricky, tricksy^†; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand etc. (hidden) 528; subdolous^†; deceitful etc. 545; slippery as an eel, evasive etc. 623; crooked; arch, pawky^†, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle^†; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.    tactful, diplomatic, politic; polite etc. 894.    ... show more

Roget 607: changeful etc. 149; irresolute etc. 605; ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving^†; coquetting etc. v.. revocatory^†, reactionary.    ... show more

Roget 255: smooth; polished etc. v.; leiodermatous^†, slick, velutinous^†; even; level etc. 213; plane etc. (flat) 251; sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate^†, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled^†; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly etc. (feathery) 256.    ... show more

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