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slippery |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. Not affording firm ground for confidence; as a slippery promise. The slippery tops of human state. --Cowley. 3. Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away The slippery god will try to loose his hold --Dryden. 4. Liable to slip; not standing firm. --Shak. 5. Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle. ``The slippery state of kings.'' --Denham. 6. Uncertain in effect. --L'Estrange. 7. Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals. --Shak. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [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 [syn: {tricky}]
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