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slippery

s li puh ree

  • a  causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide
    slippery sidewalks
    a slippery bar of soap
  • s  not to be trusted
    how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee

  • Thin, sad Burglar Ren Girier was a slippery one, no doubt about it.
  • Intent is a slippery fish.
  • To warnings of a slippery slope, Gunther tilts the logic the other way: "The argument that a beneficial treatment should not be used because it might be misused is itself a .
News & Articles

  • Court upholds firing of Slippery Rock professor who made sexual comments
    Commonwealth Court supported Slippery Rock University's dismissal of a professor who made sexual comments while on a spring break trip.
    June 12, 2013 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Miners upend Slippery Rock 6-3
    BECKLEY (WVVA) - The West Virginia Miners were back in Beckley Tuesday after last week's four-game road trip for a series with Slippery Rock. The first few innings were very quiet. Robert Tavone Jr. hit
    June 12, 2013 - WVVA Bluefield
  • Dump truck rolls over in Brighton
    Some slippery roads are being blamed for a crash that happened on the campus of Monroe Community College Tuesday afternoon...
    June 11, 2013 - News 10 NBC Rochester
Quotes

  • Charles Grassley in USA Today
    This bill is already moving on a slippery slope to more and more government control of health care,Grassley said.
  • Jim Delany in Duluth News Tribune
    But these hills around here and the Ardennes are legendary, it's part of cycling. Liege-Bastogne-Liege has been around for a hundred years and they do that on the snow. We can't say that. For whatever reason the road was slippery and it's by no... Lance Armstrong http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHHS8RAzJ3Py-TwWDUsC2nQY1jshw Reuters http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6640FY20100705&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGA4HMthnIyvkdQyFUds6rBZ3-Z8w Jul 4, 2010 91155 121237 slippery There's a strong sense in that room of the slippery slope view that there's never been a collegiate or professional playoff that's stopped at four teams," Delany said.

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