slithery

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Before you get carried away, admit - as the Independent's Michael Coveney does - that the "slithery" Atkinson "can't sing very well, and keeps missing the beat".

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  1. Slippery: same as sliddery. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] The ro'd … maun be slithery. G. MacDonald, Warlock o' Glen warlock, p. 81.

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  • Instead, there was a strange thick cloying pineapple-apricot stink, only kind of slithery and lizard-like too. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 04 - April 2007 (v1.0) [html]
  • Bartender asks and Mitchell orders, making a kind of slithery noise. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
  • Before you get carried away, admit - as the Independent's Michael Coveney does - that the "slithery" Atkinson "can't sing very well, and keeps missing the beat". —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • Watson, when you stand before the serpents in the Zoo, and see the slithery, gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened faces? —  The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Pagan
  • Welcome to reptile therapy - the slithery snake massage designed to help you relax —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
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