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UK
/slˈaɪmɪnəs/
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NOUN
- a property resembling or being covered with slime
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the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
the vileness of his language surprised us
How To Use sliminess In A Sentence
- If it were necessary for me to experience sliminess, I would become slime. I would set limed snares in the thickets ( God forbid! ), playing songs of hypocrisy on my pipes.
- The Mariner's conceptuality is resonant in the sliminess of "a million million slimy things" (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), 4.230); a register picked up again in Sartre's disturbingly phobic Being and Nothingness (601-15) .13 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth
- The grossness and the sliminess of it was forgotten in the simple grotesqueness of it, and he had the saving sense of humor. The Benefit of the Doubt
