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Slithery describes something slippery — wet, slimy, or so smooth that you do not want to touch it, or cannot keep hold of it. A slithery fish, a slithery handful of , a slithery floor after someone spills oil: the feeling is a bit icky, not just “you might fall.” Slippery can be neutral (the ice is slippery; be careful). Slithery almost always carries a of dislike. It fits snakes, worms, wet , muddy banks, and sometimes a person whose manner feels hard to trust, as if they might wriggle out of a promise — that last use is a stretch from the snake picture, and you should know it is figurative. The word sounds informal and physical; you would use it in speech and in stories more than in a science report. Though actually, it is simply with -y on the end: “like something that .” If you already know , slithery is the feel of that movement in your hands or under your feet.
滑溜溜的（帶點噁心或不舒服，不只是「會滑倒」）
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
slitheryadj
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That slithers; that moves like a snake.
- Do you feel a creeping, shrinking sensation, Watson, when you stand before the serpents in the Zoo, and see the slithery, gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened faces? Well, that’s how Milverton impresses me.
- […] we set out for the cannery. There, men with spiked poles would swarm into the scow, hook each fish under the gills. The creatures would hurtle through the air like silver streaks, landing into the cannery chutes with slithery thumps, and pass on to the ripping knives
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Sneaky, underhanded; evasive.
- The suspects include mischievous caricatures from the New York art world-a guileful art dealer, a slithery lawyer, a glittering female collector of celebrities, a vacant former model who is Maitland's widow, and so on.
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Slippery, causing one to slither.
- But a little while only would he suffer us to halt; then right we turned, up along the ridge, where the way was yet worse than in the dale had been, with rocks and pits hidden in the heather, and slithery slabs of granite.
- She led the way, stepping gingerly on the slithery moss.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。