slippery 的定义
slip·per·i·er, slip·per·i·est.
- tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
- tending to slip from the hold or grasp or from position: a slippery rope.
- likely to slip away or escape: slippery prospects.
- not to be depended on; fickle; shifty, tricky, or deceitful.
- unstable or insecure, as conditions: a slippery situation.
slippery 近义词
smooth, slick
uncertain, unreliable
更多slippery例句
- That ability to vector torque towards traction should endow the Hummer EV with an unprecedented ability to keep moving forward through even the gnarliest of slippery conditions.
- Charlotte opted to design a new, more slippery coating for a ship’s hull so that fewer creatures would be able to hitch a ride.
- People opposed to Measure E say nixing the height limit in Midway is the beginning of a slippery slope and could inspire other coastal neighborhoods to do the same.
- Opponents think the measure is a slippery slope to removing the height limit in other places.
- The fact that then-Justice Antonin Scalia died 269 days before that year’s presidential election, while Ginsberg passed away 46 days before this one, is just butter on the greased pole of slippery words.
- Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism.
- Swiss leaders also dispel the “slippery slope” idea by repeatedly rejecting substantial minimum wage increases.
- Hers is a particular brand of essay: writing at its most crystal clear, subject matter at its most slippery and interesting.
- The slippery slope argument is a way of keeping the hands-off-the-Internet-entirely philosophy going.
- Which is why his efforts to justify his rabid consumption of football wind up feeling so slippery and convoluted.
- He will find that “Ice” is a concrete word, and “Slippery” indicates a quality of “Ice” and of other things.
- He must write down the first two words, “Ice” and “Slippery,” the latter word under the former.
- As Isabel walked carefully down the slippery stair she veiled her eyes to hide the wonder in them.
- If these gentlemen had thought to avoid slippery ground, they should have elected to appoint the meeting elsewhere.
- The floors and steps are wet and slippery with brine and with the blood of herrings dripping down from one floor to another.