adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the sea flooded around them, the boy grabbed an axe and hacked at the slithery tentacles.
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As we began our slithery descent to the shore, a kestrel hovered above the brow of the hill.
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Clear as a bell, yet slithery with innuendo, it leaped like a deer, slipped like a snake.
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Even the worms on the pavement, flooded out of their homes in the municipal flowerbeds, exude a slithery gentility.
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I could already see that look in his eyes, something slithery and pink that hints of alcoholic tendencies.
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Pretty much where they started -- full of loping bass lines and slithery sax riffs.