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US
/ˈsɫaɪmi/
]
[ UK /slˈaɪmi/ ]
[ UK /slˈaɪmi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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morally reprehensible
the vile development of slavery appalled them
a slimy little liar
would do something as despicable as murder
ugly crimes -
covered with or resembling slime
a slimy substance covered the rocks
How To Use slimy In A Sentence
- The flesh should have some redness, the eyes should gleam and the scales feel slightly slimy. Times, Sunday Times
- The Sea is heaven's own blue like a diamond more lovely in a king's diadem than in the mines of the Indes but as it gushes up through the broken ice-like salt, it is black, full of asphalte scum - and in the hand slimy, and smarting as a sting.
- They include worm charming where two teams compete to entice the slimy creatures out of the ground. The Sun
- I've worked hard for what I have and I don't want it taken away by some slimy business partner.
- As gardeners already know, all other slugs and snails (or gastropod mollusks, to the experts) sport a soft and slimy foot.
- She stretched the way that a cat does, edging her pale arms through the slimy, greasy mess we left behind.
- The vegetable dumplings, in contrast, were almost inedible, with a slimy exterior and no discernible flavour.
- The toilet leaks, leaving the bathroom floor awash in slimy water.
- Drake - unbelievably - spit at Quin, who managed to dodge the slimy gob.
- Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy; as well as many others, including the Doctor's lover, a Hapsburg We Have All Been Disgraced By Corruption, A Review of Eric Ambler's Doctor Frigo