Slippery is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLIPPERY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• causing slips
• (of a surface or object) difficult to hold firmly or stand on because it is smooth, wet, or slimy
• (of a person) evasive and unpredictable; not to be relied on
• so smooth or wet as to cause slipping or be difficult to hold
• 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.
• causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide
• not to be trusted
• (of a word or concept) elusive in meaning because changing according to one's point of view
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• causing or tending to cause slipping

Words related to SLIPPERY

glibbery16 gliddery14 lubric10 sliddery13 slipperier14 slipperiest15 slipperily17 slipperiness16 slippy13

How to use SLIPPERY in a sentence

• And such a treacherous Frenchman would prove a tricky and slippery sort.
• Such times do come in all their bitterness, finally, to the man with no trade or craft, if his feeble clutch on that slippery ghost, Property, shall fail.
• It was a cold morning, the snow blew, and the street was slippery.
• The irregular, great blocks of limestone, covered with the smooth, dry, slippery coating, caused constant stumbling to our poor animals.
• There had been a heavy fall of rain, and the ground was wet and slippery.
• In the spring it is very soft and slippery and causes the bark to peel off easily.
• Stumbling along the slippery trail, he cursed his clumsiness.
• The decks were slippery with blood, and a gathering mist made it impossible to ascertain the extent of our losses.
• Then he was at my throat, and it was fortunate that there was firm rock instead of slippery ice beneath us, or we should both have followed the sword.
• Their feet hesitated upon the polished surface of the stone, or the short and slippery grass.
• But the mule accelerated its pace, the shadows glided quicker and quicker, up and down the stony, slippery path that wound its way through this ghostly forest.
• His foot came down on a slippery patch of mud, sending him sprawling on his face.
• Steps have been cut in the slippery clay bluff to facilitate the ascent.
• The French columns were in movement at daybreak, but still the fog hid the whole landscape, and the guides of the French feared to lead them up the slippery crags.
• Down the slippery clay slide the children rolled the stones, watching them splash into the little pond at the bottom of the hill.
• The little boy and girl dug their heels in, or they tried to, but the clay was hard, as well as slippery.
• They had gone down only a little piece before he stepped on a piece of slippery moss, his feet flew out from under him, and down he came with the canoe on top of him.
• There had been a rain and the road was slippery with red mud.
• How white the stick is under the bark! It shines and looks slippery.
• Because they have a slippery womb, and the seed will not stay in it.
• Dorian, while clinging to the slippery rocks, tried to pull the man away, but he was so firmly pinned under the wreck that he could not be moved.
• The Master threw himself prone on the slippery floor, took one of the lamps and lowered it, by the chain, to its capacity.
• The ground was covered with dense undergrowth and immense trees, and was soft and slippery from recent high water.
• His boots wore very slippery on grass and pine-needles, so that he might have been trying to climb on ice.
• The white path below eventually leads, by a narrow and steep gully, very slippery after rain, directly to the village of Washington on the Horsham-Worthing high road.
• Feeling of his hunting frock, he found that it was damp and slippery.
• Slippery assured Joe and quieted him by saying that it would be merely a matter of days before they would meet Jim in the street in the same manner that they had met Boston Frank.
• The boy wonders how far he dare wade out along that slippery floor.

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