slippery
adjective
tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc..
slipperily
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a word derived from
slippery.
Example Sentences
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There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
The hollow grooves were full of mud and water, and one struggled slipperily from rock to rock, or along narrow grass-ledges.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
