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slippery

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1. slippery - Adjective

2. slippery - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.

Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.

Liable to slip; not standing firm.

Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.

Uncertain in effect.

Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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slippery sidewalks Source: Internet

a slippery bar of soap Source: Internet

the streets are still slippy from the rain Source: Internet

how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is Source: Internet

Age Friendly South Portland, Cub Scouts Pack 22, and Boy Scouts Troop 23 recently teamed up to build wooden supports for community sand barrels that residents can use to make walkways in their communities less slippery this winter season. Source: Internet

As time goes on, films featuring invisible characters swung back towards exploring the slippery slope of granting people this superpower. Source: Internet

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