slipperyadjective
uk/ˈslɪp.ər.i/us/ˈslɪp.ɚ.i/C1 If something is slippery, it is wet or smooth so that it slides easily or causes something to slide:
slippery soap
a slippery floor
The road was wet and slippery.
informal disapproving Someone who is slippery cannot be trusted:
He's as slippery as an eel - you can never get a straight answer out of him.
He's a slippery customer (= person), and I've never felt comfortable with him.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- down-and-dirty
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- low-down
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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