slimy
/ˈslʌɪmi
/adjective (slimier, slimiest)
1Covered by or resembling slime: thick, slimy mud...
- The walls of the streamway were covered in slimy mud and the water was dark and cloudy with peat.
- Mr. Mixson went on to tell me the feral pigs were almost swimming in mud that was covered in slimy green algae.
- 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.
Synonyms
slippery, slithery, greasy, oozy, muddy, mucky, sludgy, miry;
clammy, wet;
sticky, viscous, viscid, mucilaginous, glutinous, mucous, mucoid
informal slippy, gunky, gooey, gloopy, gummy
2 informal Repellently smooth and obsequious: a slimy, cigar-puffing political fixer...
- Even though he is not being sacked, it realistically means the end to his slimy crawl up the political ladder.
- Even by the standards of the Victorians, who had a pretty high tolerance level for toadying, this is slimy stuff.
- This latest daft row is yet another example of the slimy politics which disfigure racing, and there's a lot worse to come.
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
- She picked up her math notebook and saw that raw egg dripped slimily off it onto the floor.
- ‘For you babe, of course not,’ Linx grinned slimily.
- And suddenly he changed into Bormann, sneering slimily.
sliminess
- 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.
- 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.
- That's where this dark, cold sliminess comes in.