adjective
- most difficult to hold onto or stand on because of being smooth, wet, or greasy
- most evasive, untrustworthy, or difficult to pin down
Usage: superlative form of slippery
Usage: figurative use; superlative form of slippery
Examples
- The bathroom floor was the slipperiest surface in the house after the leak.
- Ice makes roads the slipperiest during winter storms.
- That politician is the slipperiest character I’ve ever encountered.
- The wet rocks by the waterfall were the slipperiest part of the trail.
- He’s the slipperiest negotiator in the business.
- The soap made my hands the slipperiest they’d ever been.
- This is the slipperiest slope on the entire mountain.