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词汇 slithery
释义 slithery
adjective
uk /ˈslɪð.ər.i/ us /ˈslɪð.ɚ.i/

slitheryadjective (WET/SMOOTH)


If something is slithery, it is wet or smooth so that it moves easily and quickly across a surface while twisting or curving, or causes something to slide in this way:
We now had to get back down the slithery path in the cold and dark.
She felt something slithery against her legs.
Snakes are sleek and slithery, and many people are absolutely terrified of them.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach
clamber
claw
claw your way (somewhere)idiom
crawl
crawly
four
grovel
on all foursidiom
pull
scramble
shimmy
slither
wriggle

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Bending, twisting and curving
Movement

slitheryadjective (DISHONEST)


informaldisapproving
Someone who is slithery cannot be trusted:
slithery self-justification
She is slithery and manipulative.
Their approach has been marked by slithery dishonesty.
He has always been a natural in roles that call for slithery sarcasm.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dishonest
artificiality
bad faith
be rotten to the coreidiom
bent
cowboy
dubiously
false
finagle
fishy
fly-by-night
malfeasance
mendacious
mendaciously
misleading
misleadingly
under false pretencesphrase
underhand
unreliability
unreliable
unscrupulous

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