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Synonyms for slippery
ˈslɪp ə ri, ˈslɪp rislip·pe·ry

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. slipperyadjective

    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.

    Synonyms:
    slick, greasy, slippy, slimy, wet

    Antonyms:
    sticky

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. slippery

    Synonyms:
    smooth, glassy, lubricated, insecure, perilous, unsafe, unstable, shifty, elusive, shuffling, unprincipled, deceptive, evasive, untrustworthy, uncertain

    Antonyms:
    rough, firm, unslippery, secure, safe, stable, solid, trustworthy

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 1 vote

  1. slippery, slippyadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    slippy, tricky

    Antonyms:
    nonslippery, nonslip, nonskid, trusty, trustworthy

  2. slippery, trickyadjective

    not to be trusted

    "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee

    Synonyms:
    dodgy, catchy, tricky, cunning, knavish, sly, guileful, wily, foxy, crafty, slippy, slick, tricksy

    Antonyms:
    trustworthy, nonslippery, nonslip, nonskid, trusty

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. slipperyadjective

    Synonyms:
    smooth, glib

  2. slipperyadjective

    Synonyms:
    unstable, uncertain, changeable, mutable, unsteady, shaky

  3. slipperyadjective

    Synonyms:
    treacherous, perfidious, faithless, knavish, dishonest, false

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. slipperyadjective

    Synonyms:
    smooth, glib, inconstant, unstable, loose, incontinent, lubric

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "slippery":

    rolling, hernia, enigmatic, sliding, tricksy, slope

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#29656hernia
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#36528dodgy
#37424enigmatic
#38566perilous
#44681evasive
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#46738glassy
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#48820slimy
#66096shifty
#83297untrustworthy
#107171slippy
#111630unprincipled

How to use slippery in a sentence?

  1. Niki Lauda:

    Singapore was a very good lesson, we had the cars set up wrong for the conditions there. It was very odd. The circuit is very slippery there and we never got the tires to work properly. This was the mistake.

  2. Henry Adams:

    No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

  3. Steve Sarkisian:

    These are the rules, we have to play by them. But it has created unique challenges that we have not seen before. Everybody’s trying to navigate through it the best way they can. But there’s a slippery slope. I don’t think any of us really know where this is going to go. This is the world we’re in right now.

  4. Bernie Sanders:

    Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away and you say,' Well, that guy committed a terrible crime, not going to let him vote. Well, that person did that. Not going to let that person vote,' you're running down a slippery slope.

  5. Sebastian Gorka:

    It's not what we stand for and the idea that we make it part of policy, when you do that, you really start down a slippery slope and you start to close the gap between us and the bad guys.


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