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slippery eel
noun as in criminal
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"I should call you a slippery eel," said Ben, while Polly ran around to the other side to tuck the blanket-end in again.
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Pulling the dory up on the rocks they stumbled over the slippery eel-grass and approached the ill-fated craft.
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An excellent angler, its skill in capture was seen to greatest advantage when it had to encounter an unusually slippery eel.
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“I thought he was a man and not a slippery eel,” cried Tom Tully.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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