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slipperiness

[ UK /slˈɪpəɹinəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a slippery smoothness
    he could feel the slickness of the tiller
  2. the quality of being a slippery rascal

How To Use slipperiness In A Sentence

  • A nice summary of the slipperiness of Barack Obama and not items that will be covered by the MSM, not when there are stories about Sarah Palin's sunbed to cover. Archive 2008-09-01
  • The peculiar kind of causality exhibited when measurements at stations with space-like separation are correlated is a symptom of the slipperiness of the space-time behavior of potentialities. Archive 2009-02-01
  • I completely agree with this in principle, having done my own tiny share of anorakish fact-checking and dissecting of slipperiness here over the last couple of years (such as this). Freemania
  • Taking them off means feeling the floor, the temperature and slipperiness of the surface, the rhythm of jointing in the boards.
  • Certain adepts are supposedly able to prepare the soup in a way that minimizes this slipperiness, but I can't say that I have ever dined with any.
  • The party leadership's sometimes duplicitousness and slipperiness on the issue of Europe is what will cost us our place in the EU.
  • North and west of the western side of the beltway, the chance for slipperiness and refreezing is higher. PM Update: Some rain tonight, mix northwest
  • The slipperiness of the term tends to make for bad laws, legislated in haste, that infringe civil liberties.
  • You don't smell the salt air of the ocean, feel the swell of the waves under your boat or the slipperiness of a freshly caught fish.
  • Modernity uses - or rather abuses - the term equality in two incompatible and self-canceling ways and in a verbal sleight of exasperating slipperiness. The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
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