It is a swamp of willows, cottonwoods, and vines; a malarial and pestilential waste where bars of white sand and pools of slimey water glisten through the saplings.
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Slimey
Synonyms for "slimey" (172 found)
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Climbed through the blown-out window and sloshed through the slimey water.
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It once had been the warehouse and dock of the Lehigh Valley Railroad; now it was a ruin, its four shambling stories sagging into the slimey water.
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I won’t let those thieving, murdering leeches who call themselves our kin get their slimey hands on you.
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