Slippery

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  • adjective. Causing or tending to cause sliding or slipping.
  • adjective. Tending to slip, as from one's grasp.
  • adjective. Not trustworthy; elusive or tricky.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having such smoothness of surface as to cause slipping or sliding, or to render grip or hold difficult; not affording firm footing or secure hold.
  • Hence That cannot be depended on or trusted; uncertain; untrustworthy; apt to play one false; dishonest: as, he is a slippery person to deal with; slippery politicians.
  • Liable to slip or lose footing.
  • Unstable; changeable; mutable.
  • Lubric; wanton; unchaste.
  • Crafty; sly.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib.
  • adjective. Not affording firm ground for confidence.
  • adjective. Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
  • adjective. Liable to slip; not standing firm.
  • adjective. Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.
  • adjective. Uncertain in effect.
  • adjective. Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
  • adjective. A malvaceous shrub (Fremontia Californica); -- so called on the Pacific coast.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. Evasive; difficult to pin down.
  • adjective. Liable to slip; not standing firm.
  • adjective. unstable; changeable; inconstant
  • adjective. wanton; unchaste; loose in morals
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. not to be trusted
  • adjective. causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide
  • Word Usage
    "You know, people always use the term slippery slope when it comes to ethical arguments, and I think it applies here as well."
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