Crossword-Solution: SLIPPERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Slippery | a. | 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. |
| Slippery | a. | Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise. |
| Slippery | a. | Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away. |
| Slippery | a. | Liable to slip; not standing firm. |
| Slippery | a. | Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle. |
| Slippery | a. | Uncertain in effect. |
| Slippery | a. | Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
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greedy person
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Sentences with SLIPPERY (5)
The stones under my feet were muddy and slippery, and the river was so low that I ran perhaps twenty feet scarcely waist-deep.
Hackerism for the FORTRAN language, referring to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax, limited control constructs, and slippery, exception-filled semantics.
Archie and Thea sat down on a slippery leather couch, the minister asked for an outline of Thea’s plans.
For days now she had lived in a wild turmoil of excitement; she had not had a quiet rest for three nights; now, she had walked on a slippery road for nearly two hours, and yet her determination never swerved for a moment.
Back and forth along the slippery highway the tide of battle surged, but never once was the gateway to Kaol really in danger.
Quotes with SLIPPERY (3)
Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.
Prison Moon Four a.m. work duty and I beginmy solitary trudge from outer compoundto main building. A shivering guard, chilled in his lonely outpost, strip searchesme until content that my inconsequential nudity. poses no threat and then whispersthe secret code that allows me admittance into the open quarter-mile walkway. I chuff my way into another dayas ice glints on the razor wireand the rifles note my numbed passage, silent but for my huffs and scuffleon the cracked, slipp…
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1961–2014).