Slippery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slippery \Slip"per*y\, a. [See {Slipper}, a.]
     1. 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.
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     2. Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery
        promise.
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              The slippery tops of human state.     --Cowley.
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     3. Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
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              The slippery god will try to loose his hold.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     4. Liable to slip; not standing firm. --Shak.
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     5. Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant;
        fickle. "The slippery state of kings." --Denham.
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     6. Uncertain in effect. --L'Estrange.
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     7. Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals. --Shak.
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     {Slippery elm}. (Bot.)
        (a) An American tree ({Ulmus fulva}) with a mucilagenous
            and slightly aromatic inner bark which is sometimes
            used medicinally; also, the inner bark itself.
        (b) A malvaceous shrub ({Fremontia Californica}); -- so
            called on the Pacific coast.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slippery
       adj 1: being such as to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery
              sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are
              still slippy from the rain" [syn: {slippy}] [ant: {nonslippery}]
       2: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the
          camera is"- James Agee; "they called Reagan the teflon
          president because mud never stuck to him" [syn: {tricky},
          {teflon}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  186 Moby Thesaurus words for "slippery":
     Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adipose, ambidextrous, amoral,
     arch, artful, astute, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, cagey,
     calculating, canny, changeable, chiseling, chrismal, chrismatory,
     clever, collusive, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, covinous,
     crafty, criminal, critical, crooked, cunning, cute, dangerous,
     dark, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, delicate, designing, desultory,
     devious, diplomatic, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, double,
     double-dealing, doubtful, dubious, elusive, elusory, evasive,
     faithless, false, falsehearted, fat, fatty, feline, felonious,
     finagling, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, glassy, greased,
     greasy, guileful, hazardous, icy, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral,
     inconstant, indirect, infirm, ingenious, insecure, insidious,
     insubstantial, inventive, knowing, lardaceous, lardy, lubric,
     lubricated, lubricious, malingering, mucoid, not kosher, oiled,
     oily, oleaginous, oleic, on slippery ground, on thin ice, pawky,
     perfidious, perilous, politic, precarious, provisional,
     questionable, ready, reptilian, resourceful, rich, risky, rotten,
     scheming, sebaceous, serpentine, shady, shaky, shameless, sharp,
     shifting, shifty, shirking, shrewd, sinister, sleek, slick,
     sliddery, slimy, slipper, slippy, slithery, sly, smooth, snaky,
     sneaky, soaped, soapy, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile,
     subtle, suety, supple, surreptitious, suspicious, tactical,
     tallowy, temporary, tentative, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy,
     treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, uncertain,
     unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unctuous,
     undependable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfaithworthy,
     unguent, unguentary, unguentous, unprincipled, unreliable,
     unsavory, unscrupulous, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast,
     unsteady, unstraightforward, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy,
     variable, vulpine, wary, wily, without remorse, without shame