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  • adjective comparative form of slimy: more slimy

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Examples

  • I'd like to say I wrote Lost on Treasure Island because I hungered for knowledge, and the liberation that knowledge would bring, because writing about one's more desperate and despicable maneuvers helps one to see oneself with clarity; that writing honestly--or at least attempting to write honestly--about one's sleazier misdeeds and slimier general misconduct makes one less likely to engage in such misdeeds and misconduct again.

    Steve Friedman: Reasons not to Write a Memoir (but why I did any way) Steve Friedman 2011

  • And I seem to remember President Clinton doing it as the most powerful man in the world in front of the whole country, nothing slimier than that.

    Graham: 'I don't think Democrats are for dysfunctional families' 2009

  • I'd like to say I wrote Lost on Treasure Island because I hungered for knowledge, and the liberation that knowledge would bring, because writing about one's more desperate and despicable maneuvers helps one to see oneself with clarity; that writing honestly--or at least attempting to write honestly--about one's sleazier misdeeds and slimier general misconduct makes one less likely to engage in such misdeeds and misconduct again.

    Steve Friedman: Reasons not to Write a Memoir (but why I did any way) Steve Friedman 2011

  • The more you read about them the slimier they get.

    Cheney endorsing Hutchinson in Texas governor's race 2009

  • But Christie is the one who looks like Rush Limbaugh's younger, slimier brother (if that's possible), correct?

    Polls: Christie still on top in NJ gov race 2009

  • I'd like to say I wrote Lost on Treasure Island because I hungered for knowledge, and the liberation that knowledge would bring, because writing about one's more desperate and despicable maneuvers helps one to see oneself with clarity; that writing honestly--or at least attempting to write honestly--about one's sleazier misdeeds and slimier general misconduct makes one less likely to engage in such misdeeds and misconduct again.

    Steve Friedman: Reasons not to Write a Memoir (but why I did any way) Steve Friedman 2011

  • I'd like to say I wrote Lost on Treasure Island because I hungered for knowledge, and the liberation that knowledge would bring, because writing about one's more desperate and despicable maneuvers helps one to see oneself with clarity; that writing honestly--or at least attempting to write honestly--about one's sleazier misdeeds and slimier general misconduct makes one less likely to engage in such misdeeds and misconduct again.

    Steve Friedman: Reasons not to Write a Memoir (but why I did any way) Steve Friedman 2011

  • If Linnaeus hadn't busied himself so much with the sex lives of plants and paid some attention to the livelier and certainly slimier sexual escapades of slugs, he certainly would have corrected his little mistake.

    Archive 2009-01-01 AYDIN 2009

  • Mr. MILO GEARY: The sound of his voice is good because he's a lot slimier, kind of, than the stuff that was out like that.

    Iggy Pop: The Voice As Weapon 2010

  • Well he always struck me as being even slimier than the rest of them, of course he should resign, in fact why hasn't he been sacked?

    Archive 2008-01-01 Not a sheep 2008

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