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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Causing or tending to cause sliding or slipping: a slippery sidewalk.
  2. adj. Tending to slip, as from one's grasp: a slippery bar of soap.
  3. adj. Not trustworthy; elusive or tricky: "How extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is” ( James Agee).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having such smoothness of surface as to cause slipping or sliding, or to render grip or hold difficult; not affording firm footing or secure hold.
  2. Hence That cannot be depended on or trusted; uncertain; untrustworthy; apt to play one false; dishonest: as, he is a slippery person to deal with; slippery politicians.
  3. Liable to slip or lose footing.
  4. Unstable; changeable; mutable.
  5. Lubric; wanton; unchaste.
  6. Crafty; sly.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
  2. adj. figuratively, by extension Evasive; difficult to pin down.
  3. adj. obsolete Liable to slip; not standing firm.
  4. adj. unstable; changeable; inconstant
  5. adj. obsolete wanton; unchaste; loose in morals

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib.
  2. adj. Not affording firm ground for confidence.
  3. adj. Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
  4. adj. Liable to slip; not standing firm.
  5. adj. Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.
  6. adj. Uncertain in effect.
  7. adj. Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. not to be trusted
  2. adj. causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of obsolete slipper, from Middle English, from Old English slipor; see lei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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