Slippery

Adjective

 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  Evasive; difficult to pin down.

Derived terms

 * slippery customer
 * slippery slope
 * slippery as an eel
 * Slippery Nipple

Related terms

 * slip

Synonyms

 * greasy, slick, slimy, slippy, wet

Antonyms

 * sticky

Adverbs for Slippery
unmanageably; always; alarmingly; perilously; dangerously; hazardously; terribly; desperately; wretchedly; miserably; disturbingly; evidently; dreadfully; frightfully; unusually; extremely.

Thesaurus
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adipose, ambidextrous, amoral, arch, artful, astute, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, cagey, calculating, canny, changeable, chiseling, chrismal, chrismatory, clever, collusive, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, covinous, crafty, criminal, critical, crooked, cunning, cute, dangerous, dark, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, delicate, designing, desultory, devious, diplomatic, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, double, double-dealing, doubtful, dubious, elusive, elusory, evasive, faithless, false, falsehearted, fat, fatty, feline, felonious, finagling, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, glassy, greased, greasy, guileful, hazardous, icy, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, inconstant, indirect, infirm, ingenious, insecure, insidious, insubstantial, inventive, knowing, lardaceous, lardy, lubric, lubricated, lubricious, malingering, mucoid, not kosher, oiled, oily, oleaginous, oleic, on slippery ground, on thin ice, pawky, perfidious, perilous, politic, precarious, provisional, questionable, ready, reptilian, resourceful, rich, risky, rotten, scheming, sebaceous, serpentine, shady, shaky, shameless, sharp, shifting, shifty, shirking, shrewd, sinister, sleek, slick, sliddery, slimy, slipper, slippy, slithery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, soaped, soapy, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, suety, supple, surreptitious, suspicious, tactical, tallowy, temporary, tentative, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, two-faced, uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unctuous, undependable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfaithworthy, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, unprincipled, unreliable, unsavory, unscrupulous, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, unstraightforward, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, vulpine, wary, wily, without remorse, without shame

Translations

 * Basque: labaingarriak
 * Catalan: lliscant
 * Croatian: kliženje
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: glibberig; glad
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 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: csúszós


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 * Persian: لیز
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 * Turkish: kaygan