slithery

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   That slithers

   That slithers; that moves like a snake.

   • They are doubts from the abyss that drag their cold and slithery bodies across the soul.
2. 2

   Sneaky, underhanded

   Sneaky, underhanded; insincere.

   • The suspects include mischievous caricatures from the New York art world-a guileful art dealer, a slithery lawyer, a glittering female collector of celebrities, a vacant former model who is Maitland's widow, and so on.
3. 3

   Slippery, causing one to slither.

   • But a little while only would he suffer us to halt; then right we turned, up along the ridge, where the way was yet worse than in the dale had been, with rocks and pits hidden in the heather, and slithery slabs of granite.
   • She led the way, stepping gingerly on the slithery moss.
   • Attempted but never conquered was a possible fifth way, the Grand Pilastre, a 5,000-ft. perpendicular wall of gripless, smooth rock and slithery green ice that looms over empty space toward the summit.

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