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Slippery   /slˈɪpəri/  /slˈɪpri/   Listen
adjective
Slippery  adj.  
1.
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.
2.
Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise. "The slippery tops of human state."
3.
Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away. "The slippery god will try to loose his hold."
4.
Liable to slip; not standing firm.
5.
Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle. "The slippery state of kings."
6.
Uncertain in effect.
7.
Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.
Slippery elm. (Bot.)
(a)
An American tree (Ulmus fulva) with a mucilagenous and slightly aromatic inner bark which is sometimes used medicinally; also, the inner bark itself.
(b)
A malvaceous shrub (Fremontia Californica); so called on the Pacific coast.





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"Slippery" Quotes from Famous Books



... was excessively fissured; we crossed crevasses and crept round slippery ridges, cutting steps in the ice wherever climbing was necessary. This rendered our progress very slow. Once, with the intention of lending a helping hand, I stept forward upon a block of granite which happened ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume VI • Various
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... sense of responsibility which makes people look after their own safety, and also, in some degree, to stout Japanese nerves. That our driver's nerves were sound enough was shown by the speed at which he drove the heavy car round sharp corners and down slippery descents where we should have dropped a few hundred feet ...
— The Foundations of Japan • J.W. Robertson Scott
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... no mistake about that," and Mikail lifted and laid him on the bench. "Now," he said to the guards, "you had better take that fellow out and put him in the guard cell, the cold air will bring him round as soon as you get him out of this room. You had better hold him tight when he does, for he is a slippery customer. When you have locked him up will one of you go round to the doctor's? This young fellow is bleeding fast, and I fancy I have lost a good ...
— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty
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... cried, as the maddened animal reared upright, its iron hoofs striking fire from the slippery pavement. ...
— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman
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... at the dark, heaving waves which rolled in crested with foam, and just discernible in the fast waning twilight, and felt the fierce blast against which even they could scarcely stand upright on the slippery pier, hardy and bold as they were, they hesitated about venturing forth to the rescue of the hapless crew. Long before they could reach the wreck darkness would be resting on the troubled ocean; they doubted, indeed, whether they could force their boat out in the ...
— Won from the Waves • W.H.G. Kingston
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