lubricous
Americanadjective
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(of a surface, coating, etc.) having an oily smoothness; slippery.
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unstable; shifty; fleeting.
- Synonyms:
- undependable, unsteady
Etymology
Origin of lubricous
1525–35; < Latin lūbricus slippery, Late Latin: unstable
Example Sentences
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Peter Sellers is perfectly hilarious as a lubricous bookworm, a wan don who thinks he is a Don Juan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peter Sellers is perfectly hilarious as a lubricous bookworm, a wan don who thinks he is a Don Juan.
From Time Magazine Archive
P. campan.-convex, lubricous, smoky-ochre, edge revolute downy and whitish; g. sinuate, crowded, reddish, edge white, crenulate; s. slender, whitish, subbulbous, with reflexed circinate fibrils; sp. 11-12 long. nauseosum, Cke.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
The skin is lubricous, the flesh is soft and insipid and the fish often grows to the size of a man.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
P. hemispher.-exp. obtuse, even when dry; g. with decur. tooth, crowded, distinct, joined to a collar; s. even, glabrous, lubricous, base strigose.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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