Another word for slippery
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Adjective
So smooth and glassy as to offer insecure hold or footing
- slippery
- like or characterized by a slither
- Smooth, glossy, and slippery:
- Deftly executed; adroit:
- Confident and effortlessly effective, especially in being persuasive:
- Full of or displaying sexual desire:
- Sexually stimulating; salacious:
- Having a slippery or smooth quality:
Idioms:See also:Characterized by or exhibiting evasion
- Inclined or intended to evade:
- Intentionally vague or ambiguous; equivocal:
- Tending to elude capture, perception, comprehension, or memory:
- Difficult to define or describe:
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Another word for slippery
Modifier
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- (simile, colloquial) So slippery that it is almost impossible to hold with one's hands
- (idiomatic, simile, colloquial) (of a person) So crafty, or cunning that they cannot be caught by the police, although it is known that they are acting illegally.
- Liable to skid or cause skidding:
- Slippery.
- slippery
- like or characterized by a slither
- Having, displaying, or suggestive of deceitful character; evasive or untrustworthy.
- Distinguished by frequent changes in direction:
- Able to accomplish what is needed; resourceful.
- Given to or characterized by trickery.
- Requiring caution or skill:
- Marked by or exhibiting a lack of reliability.
- Not known or established; questionable:
- Not determined; undecided:
- Not having sure knowledge:
- Not sure or certain; doubtful:
- Inadequately guarded or protected; unsafe:
- Not firm or fixed; unsteady:
- Not safe; dangerous.
- Covered or soaked with a liquid, such as water:
- Not yet dry or firm:
- Stored in or prepared with water or other liquids.
- Present participle of glisten.
- Smooth and lustrous as if polished; glossy:
- In good health and having smooth or glossy hair, fur, or skin:
- Able to or designed to move efficiently through air or water; streamlined:
- Having no hairs or pubescence; smooth:
- Made of silk; silken.
- Resembling silk; smooth or lustrous.
- Covered with or characterized by fine soft hairs or feathers:
- Having a sheen or glow; gleaming:
- Well-known or distinguished; illustrious:
- Containing or covered with ice:
- Bitterly cold; freezing:
- Unfriendly or hostile:
- Consisting of or resembling slime; viscous:
- Covered with or exuding slime:
- Morally repulsive, as in being dishonest or corrupt.
- Coated or soiled with grease.
- Containing grease, especially too much grease:
- Suggestive of grease in slickness or slipperiness:
- Consisting of or containing soap:
- Covered with soap:
- Resembling soap:
- Excessively ingratiating or insincerely earnest:
- Containing or composed of oil or fat.
- Having the quality or characteristics of oil or ointment; slippery.
- Full of or displaying sexual desire:
- Sexually stimulating; salacious:
- Having a slippery or smooth quality:
- Resembling wax in appearance or texture, as in being pale, pliable, or smooth and lustrous.
- Consisting of, abounding in, or covered with wax.
- Containing amyloid deposits, as a bodily organ.
- Smooth, glossy, and slippery:
- Deftly executed; adroit:
- Confident and effortlessly effective, especially in being persuasive:
- Of or relating to oil.
- Impregnated, smeared with, or containing oil; greasy.
- Excessively suave or ingratiating.
- Made shiny and smooth by rubbing or chemical action.
- Naturally shiny and smooth.
- Having the husk or outer layers removed. Used of grains of rice.
- Of eyes: showing no liveliness.
- simple past tense and past participle of glaze
- Having a surface free from irregularities, roughness, or projections; even.
- Free from waves or disturbances; calm:
- Free from hair, whiskers, or stubble:
- Characteristic of or resembling glass.
- Lifeless; expressionless:
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