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as in shady
given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentions
a bar where a lot of slippery characters were known to hang out
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as in elusive
hard to find, capture, or isolate
a slippery concept that we had trouble understanding
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as in slicked
having or being a surface so smooth as to greatly reduce traction
had trouble keeping upright on the slippery ice
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Recent Examples of slippery
The salt helps block the ability of the water molecules to form solid ice crystals, which prevents the roads and sidewalks from becoming slippery.
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Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2025
Which isn’t to say either of these caricatures are remotely accurate, but from the outside their battle sure looks like an unstoppable force met a slippery object.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
Sleeping pad and sleeping bag materials are also slippery, and paired with a slippery pillow can make for hours of annoying sliding around.
—Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025
The plain black design is boring though, and the material is slippery.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2025
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Though, with the man known as Kingpin, his political aspirations are likely just an extension of those shady dealings.—
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Like who would ever meet in a bathroom, that's so insanely shady.—
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Without social media, this knowledge can become more elusive.—
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This is not the first time scientists have turned to eDNA to investigate elusive animals.—
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Watch out for slippery roads: The initial half-hour of rain is when roads are slickest due to a mixture of rain, grime, and oil.—
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Women are under all kinds of other pressures in the age of Instagram to be perfectly slick and tidy and on time and all this other stuff.—
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The batter was great, though: a thin layer of crunch that wasn’t too greasy.—
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Other common symptoms of CF include coughing attacks (often with phlegm), shortness of breath, greasy and bulky stools, rectal prolapse and constipation.—
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“Slippery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slippery. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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