The fact that then-Justice Antonin Scalia died 269 days before that year’s presidential election, while Ginsberg passed away 46 days before this one, is just butter on the greased pole of slippery words.
Donald Dossier: Seizing the Moment to Fill RBG’s Seat|Tracy Moran|September 19, 2020|Ozy
From there, it’s a slippery slope for those CEOs struggling to balance short-term commercial gains and the longer-term stability of their business model.
‘It’s more transformational’: For the third time in five years, advertisers will launch a mediapalooza of account reviews|Seb Joseph|September 2, 2020|Digiday
The lining of the blood vessels, the vascular endothelium, becomes more slippery and becomes more prone to relax versus constrict, which makes your blood pressure lower.
The Zero-Minute Workout (Ep. 383 Rebroadcast)|Stephen J. Dubner|January 2, 2020|Freakonomics
Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism.
To Make Their Victory Durable, the GOP Must Fix the Minimum Wage|Dmitri Mehlhorn|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Swiss leaders also dispel the “slippery slope” idea by repeatedly rejecting substantial minimum wage increases.
To Make Their Victory Durable, the GOP Must Fix the Minimum Wage|Dmitri Mehlhorn|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hers is a particular brand of essay: writing at its most crystal clear, subject matter at its most slippery and interesting.
From Didion to Dunham, Female Essayists Seize the Day|Lucy Scholes|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The slippery slope argument is a way of keeping the hands-off-the-Internet-entirely philosophy going.
Congress, Big Tech Fight Over Child Prostitution Bill|Tim Mak|October 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Which is why his efforts to justify his rabid consumption of football wind up feeling so slippery and convoluted.
Forget the Wife Beating—Are You Ready for Some Football?|Steve Almond|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It had walls of slippery clay and a corduroyed bottom, but the corduroy was hidden beneath the mud left by thousands of feet.
Italy at War and the Allies in the West|E. Alexander Powell
I wish I'd flung him on the broken ground and not on the slippery grass.
An Isle in the Water|Katharine Tynan
Damps oozing from the walls made the path more and more tiresome and slippery as they proceeded.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)|John Roby
What was my astonishment to see on the slippery column of the tree two human forms appear and quietly slip down to the ground.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room|Gaston Leroux
Now draw up your chairs, children, and Ill tell you the whole terrible tale of the treacherous treasurer and the slippery sleuth.
Marjorie Dean High School Senior|Pauline Lester
British Dictionary definitions for slippery
slippery
/ (ˈslɪpərɪ, -prɪ) /
adjective
causing or tending to cause objects to slipa slippery road
liable to slip from the grasp, a position, etc
not to be relied upon; cunning and untrustworthya slippery character
(esp of a situation) liable to change; unstable
slippery slopea course of action that will lead to disaster or failure
Derived forms of slippery
slipperily, adverbslipperiness, noun
Word Origin for slippery
C16: probably coined by Coverdale to translate German schlipfferig in Luther's Bible (Psalm 35:6); related to Old English slipor slippery