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词汇 slimy
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Definition of slimy in English:

slimy

adjectiveslimiest, slimier ˈslʌɪmiˈslaɪmi
  • 1Covered by or resembling slime.

    thick, slimy mud

    稠稠的黏泥。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His skin was patchy and faded, and there seemed to be a faint coating of some sort of slimy gel covering most of his body.
    • Suddenly a piece of slimy seaweed wraps itself around his leg.
    • There was a twenty foot long trap door that led to a pit filled with muddy, slimy water.
    • Consequently, there was a slimy, slippery area right at the entrance to the main operating room.
    • The cells of rhodophytes are commonly covered by a slimy outer sheath.
    • She pulled her fist back and saw that it was covered in a slimy clear residue of some sort.
    • The floor, tables, and several unlucky humans were covered in slimy green webbing.
    • Mr. Mixson went on to tell me the feral pigs were almost swimming in mud that was covered in slimy green algae.
    • She stretched the way that a cat does, edging her pale arms through the slimy, greasy mess we left behind.
    • There are many packets of pumpkin seeds, sticky bottles of flax oil, dehydrating apricots and slimy salad in kitchens up and down the land.
    • I risked a peek, then hugged the dirt again, mud and slimy leaves rubbing against me.
    • No swamp should be drained, no stream covered with concrete and turned into a green slimy drain.
    • And if you carry the peel with you, you've got to deal with a slippery, slimy wet thing.
    • The windows were cracked and covered in cobwebs, dirt, and various other slimy materials.
    • The view was of a hilly allotment site with sheds and a railway station, and slimy, furrowed mud.
    • She stared at him in a moment of shock, then grabbed handful of slimy mud and shoved it into his face.
    • The walls of the streamway were covered in slimy mud and the water was dark and cloudy with peat.
    • She could feel some kind of sticky slimy ooze running through her fingers.
    • The water flows over slimy rock that tilts the wrong way: down to the canyon.
    • The freezing water, oozy and slimy with horse saliva, encompassed her body like a gooey envelope.
    Synonyms
    slippery, slithery, greasy, oozy, muddy, mucky, sludgy, miry
    clammy, wet
    sticky, viscous, viscid, mucilaginous, glutinous, mucous, mucoid
    informal slippy, gunky, gooey, gloopy, gummy
  • 2informal Repellently smooth and obsequious.

    a slimy, cigar-puffing political fixer
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You cut off one slimy social, economic or political head and two grow back in its place.
    • Even by the standards of the Victorians, who had a pretty high tolerance level for toadying, this is slimy stuff.
    • Lars is slippery and slimy, but he still runs into doors sometimes when he's not paying attention.
    • This latest daft row is yet another example of the slimy politics which disfigure racing, and there's a lot worse to come.
    • Even though he is not being sacked, it realistically means the end to his slimy crawl up the political ladder.
    Synonyms
    obsequious, sycophantic, excessively deferential, subservient, fawning, toadying, ingratiating, unctuous, oily, oleaginous, greasy, reptilian, grovelling, cringing, toadyish, sycophantish, slavish, abject, craven, humble, Uriah Heepish, self-abasing
    informal bootlicking, smarmy, sucky, soapy, forelock-tugging
    North American informal brown-nosing, apple-polishing
    British vulgar slang arse-licking, bum-sucking
    North American vulgar slang kiss-ass, ass-kissing, suckholing

Derivatives

  • slimily

  • adverb
    • ‘For you babe, of course not,’ Linx grinned slimily.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘Gracie,’ said the waiter smiling slimily at Turtle and handing me a handful of change.
      • She picked up her math notebook and saw that raw egg dripped slimily off it onto the floor.
      • And suddenly he changed into Bormann, sneering slimily.
  • sliminess

  • noun ˈslʌɪmɪnəsˈslaɪminəs
    • I had forgotten about the sliminess of raw meat, the sliding of blood and what felt like mucus between my fingers and the surface of the meat.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That's where this dark, cold sliminess comes in.
      • If he only did only the former, I've always assumed that he was legally in the clear, notwithstanding the ethical sliminess of the behavior.
      • They are delightful in their corrupt sliminess while all the time we know they'll ultimately be unsuccessful.
      • For both authors, sliminess and amorphousness are natural, usually hidden qualities of all objects in the world.

Rhymes

blimey, gorblimey, grimy, limey, stymie, thymy

Definition of slimy in US English:

slimy

adjectiveˈslīmēˈslaɪmi
  • 1Covered by or having the feel or consistency of slime.

    满是黏泥的;分泌黏液的;黏糊糊的

    the thick, slimy mud

    稠稠的黏泥。

    the walls were slimy with lichens

    墙上布满黏湿的苔藓。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She stretched the way that a cat does, edging her pale arms through the slimy, greasy mess we left behind.
    • Consequently, there was a slimy, slippery area right at the entrance to the main operating room.
    • The walls of the streamway were covered in slimy mud and the water was dark and cloudy with peat.
    • She could feel some kind of sticky slimy ooze running through her fingers.
    • And if you carry the peel with you, you've got to deal with a slippery, slimy wet thing.
    • His skin was patchy and faded, and there seemed to be a faint coating of some sort of slimy gel covering most of his body.
    • The freezing water, oozy and slimy with horse saliva, encompassed her body like a gooey envelope.
    • The water flows over slimy rock that tilts the wrong way: down to the canyon.
    • There are many packets of pumpkin seeds, sticky bottles of flax oil, dehydrating apricots and slimy salad in kitchens up and down the land.
    • There was a twenty foot long trap door that led to a pit filled with muddy, slimy water.
    • The cells of rhodophytes are commonly covered by a slimy outer sheath.
    • The windows were cracked and covered in cobwebs, dirt, and various other slimy materials.
    • I risked a peek, then hugged the dirt again, mud and slimy leaves rubbing against me.
    • The floor, tables, and several unlucky humans were covered in slimy green webbing.
    • No swamp should be drained, no stream covered with concrete and turned into a green slimy drain.
    • She pulled her fist back and saw that it was covered in a slimy clear residue of some sort.
    • Suddenly a piece of slimy seaweed wraps itself around his leg.
    • The view was of a hilly allotment site with sheds and a railway station, and slimy, furrowed mud.
    • Mr. Mixson went on to tell me the feral pigs were almost swimming in mud that was covered in slimy green algae.
    • She stared at him in a moment of shock, then grabbed handful of slimy mud and shoved it into his face.
    Synonyms
    slippery, slithery, greasy, oozy, muddy, mucky, sludgy, miry
    1. 1.1informal Disgustingly immoral, dishonest, or obsequious.
      〈非正式〉令人厌恶的;卑鄙的;谄媚的
      he was a slimy people-pleaser

      他是个讨厌的马屁精。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even by the standards of the Victorians, who had a pretty high tolerance level for toadying, this is slimy stuff.
      • Even though he is not being sacked, it realistically means the end to his slimy crawl up the political ladder.
      • Lars is slippery and slimy, but he still runs into doors sometimes when he's not paying attention.
      • This latest daft row is yet another example of the slimy politics which disfigure racing, and there's a lot worse to come.
      • You cut off one slimy social, economic or political head and two grow back in its place.
      Synonyms
      obsequious, sycophantic, excessively deferential, subservient, fawning, toadying, ingratiating, unctuous, oily, oleaginous, greasy, reptilian, grovelling, cringing, toadyish, sycophantish, slavish, abject, craven, humble, uriah heepish, self-abasing
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