Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of or resembling slime; viscous.
- adjective Covered with or exuding slime.
- adjective Morally repulsive, as in being dishonest or corrupt.
- adjective Excessively ingratiating; smarmy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Slime-like; of the nature, appearance, or consistency of slime; soft, moist, ropy, and disagreeably adhesive or viscous: as, the slimy sediment in a drain; the slimy exudation of an eel or a snail.
- Abounding with slime: as, a slimy soil.
- Covered with slime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in
slime ;viscous ;glutinous . - adjective slang, figuratively friendly in a false,
calculating way;underhanded ;sneaky .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with or resembling slime
- adjective morally reprehensible
Etymologies
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Examples
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I thought that the birth of the Uruk-hai in slimy placentas was much more puerile Hollywood than mature Middle-earth.
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The idea of a nuanced badness, where one can thrive while being slimy, is foreign to them.
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His acid tirades -- publicly branding one member of Parliament "a pompous sod" and another "slimy" -- have gotten him ejected from Parliament 10 times.
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This was just typical mid-term slimy republican tactics.
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