Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being slimy; viscosity; slime.
Wiktionary
- n. The property of being slimy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being slimy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a property resembling or being covered with slime
- n. the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
Examples
“Their sliminess is not only the revenge of objectivity ( "the revenge of the In-itself," as Sartre puts it, 609), but also an invitation to look more carefully, to wonder.”
“If that's "sliminess", I must be confused - it sounds like sensible politics to me.”
“Got rid of the sliminess and made for a truly mouthwatering experience, goes a treat with rice.”
“Sometimes it's enough to combat the sliminess, but I often still have issues getting it down.”
“Business as usual in D.C. At least it's not a "signing statement" that exempts the exec branch from following the law, nor is it an "earmark," nor unconstitutional spending commitment (like the Treasury guaranteeing automobile warranties ... who imagined that the US taxpayer would be on the hook for the maintenance of consumer goods and where does the Exec branch derive the authority for that sort of sliminess?) +3 Good Comment?”
“I see nothing but the basest of political sliminess when the third President in a row we know smoked marijuana continues to violently assault and imprison mere plebes for doing thesame.”
“As I explained to my two teenage sons this morning, Spector is the perfect example of the sliminess associated with politicians.”
“The grossness and the sliminess of it was forgotten in the simple grotesqueness of it, and he had the saving sense of humor.”
“The man is just undeniably watchable, and I feel like he truly revels in the evil/sliminess of his characters, which lets me revel in them too.”
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“Agent Umber pushes bravely into the dark sliminess.”
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