Slipperiness

Synonyms for "slipperiness" (53 found)

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Closest matches (11)

Noun(1 words)

art artfulness artifice canniness cleverness corruption craft danger delicacy dishonesty

Strong matches (16)

dishonor evenness finesse fraudulence gamesmanship greasiness guile hazard indirection infirmity insecurity instability insubstantiality inventiveness

Noun(2 words)

elusiveness evasion

Related words (26)

Noun(8 words)

lubricity rascality shiftiness slick sliminess slip soapiness trickiness

one upmanshipperil readiness regularity risk riskiness sharpness shrewdness sophistry stealth subtletysword of damoclestreachery uncertainty uniformity unreliability wile wit

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5 relation types

More general

7 entries

concept dishonestyfigurative sensephysical propertyproperty quality smoothness

More specific

4 entries

ambiguitygrease slipperinessice slipperinessvagueness

Collocations

6 entries

extreme slipperinesshigh slipperinessice slipperinessslipperiness factorslipperiness indexsurface slipperiness

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

slipperily slippery

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He struggled out of the water, by clawing into the slipperiness, and climbing, not knowing if he was crawling onto the body of a sea serpent.

Source: wiktionary

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