Crossword-Solution: SLIMY 5 letters, 71 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Slimy	superl.	Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature of slime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime; yielding, or abounding in, slime.

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Word		Anagrams
SLIMY	anagram	ILYSM

We have 71 clues for the answer “SLIMY”

Clue	Answers
Like a slug's trail	1 answer
Like snails and slugs	1 answer
Like slugs	1 answer
Like sludge	1 answer
Like natto	1 answer
Like guck	1 answer
Like algae	1 answer
Like a snail's trail	1 answer
Like a snail trail	1 answer
Like snails' trails	1 answer
Hard to hold, in a way	1 answer
Gunk-covered	1 answer
Dishonest, outspoken, sneaky me (5)	1 answer
Disgustingly obsequious	1 answer
Disgustingly dishonest	1 answer
Covered with viscous mud	1 answer
Covered with thick, icky liquid	1 answer
Oozing smarm	1 answer
Vile, as a villain	1 answer
Unethical, informally	1 answer
Slug-like	1 answer
Slippery with mud.	1 answer
Slick and nasty	1 answer
Scuzzballesque	1 answer
Scumlike	1 answer
Oozy, like a slug	1 answer
Covered with mud.	1 answer
Ooze-covered	1 answer
Offensively vile	1 answer
Mired in muck	1 answer
Like yamaimo	1 answer
Like someone slugged?	1 answer
Like some mold	1 answer
Like snakes, in many people's imaginations (but not really)	1 answer
"Okra Is So Much More Than Its ___ Reputation" (Los Angeles _Times_ headline)	1 answer
Covered with ooze	2 answers
Like snails	2 answers
Goo-covered	2 answers
Covered in goo	2 answers
Like a slug	2 answers
Like a snail	3 answers
Not at all trustworthy	3 answers
Soft and sticky.	4 answers
like a frog	4 answers
ACRAWL	5 answers
wormy	5 answers
Beneath contempt.	5 answers
Morally reprehensible	7 answers
Slithery	8 answers
smeary	10 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEEAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with SLIMY (5)

Here is a field-tested ooblick recipe contributed by GLS: 1 cup cornstarch 1 cup baking soda 3/4 cup water N drops of food coloring This recipe isn't quite as non-Newtonian as a pure cornstarch ooblick, but has an appropriately slimy feel.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

The cool ocean refreshed him almost as much as would a draft of water, so that it was with renewed vigor that he brought the smaller boat alongside the derelict, and, after many herculean efforts, succeeded in dragging it onto the slimy ship’s bottom.

The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

For a moment he could not realize the good fortune that had befallen him—all that he could see was the figure of a silent, struggling white man disappearing beneath the surface of the river to unthinkable death in the slimy mud of the bottom.

The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Again and again she could have sworn that she felt some huge, slimy body sweep beneath her in the mysterious waters of this unknown river.

The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994

The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2006

Quotes with SLIMY (3)

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides.

Donna Tartt The Goldfinch

The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an ex…

Stephen King

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 73 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).