slithery
Britishadjective
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moving with a slithering motion
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suggestive of a slithering creature
Example Sentences
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Then, hop back into the car for a side trip to the Bug and Reptile Museum, a small building with dozens of well-curated slithery things — snakes, insects, lizards and more.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
The slithery fish began to evolve into proficient hunters, and the new fossils hint that today’s bloodsucking species evolved from flesh-eating ancestors.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 31, 2023
Along with the mata mata turtle and reptile known as the tuatara, among the other animals studied were caecilians, a slithery type of amphibian with an outward appearance akin to snakes.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2022
It’s the greatness of a vastly open, unstable, slithery text.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2020
They wanted to feel the past once again, to bridge the gap to that time forty years earlier when the slithery moves of Santone Townsend had swelled their hearts like nothing else.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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