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Definition of Slipperiest
1. slippery [adj] - See also: slippery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slipperiest
Literary usage of Slipperiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Citation and examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby by Walter Savage Landor (1834)
"There is a fork to be had that can hold the slipperiest eel, and a finger that
can strip the slimiest. I cry your worship to the witnesses." SIR THOMAS. ..."
2. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1870)
"Now we have been ashamed to go into a suit for pride's sake, but the fact is
this, nothing will cure him except close confinement, for he is the slipperiest ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... constructed, judging from its height, for the accommodation of a giant, and
misfitted with the slipperiest leather cushion within the precincts of the ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"THAT slipperiest of sovereigns, the KHEDIVE, has tried to *ri'- himself out of
the bonds to which, in the pinch of ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"On almost the steepest and slipperiest of these you are pretty safe so long as
you dig your heels into the grass, and make a judi- ..."
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