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Slippery Common

Slippery has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide

"slippery sidewalks"

"a slippery bar of soap"

"the streets are still slippy from the rain"

2

not to be trusted

"how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"

3

Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.

"The marble floor became dangerously slippery after the janitor accidentally spilled water during his cleaning routine."

Example Sentences
"slippery sidewalks" adjective
"a slippery bar of soap" adjective
"the streets are still slippy from the rain" adjective
"how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is" adjective
Related Terms
Antonyms
nonslippery
Rhyming Words
ery aery tery very jery eery mery yery query dyery avery onery every veery wiery apery emery peery faery beery
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