slippery

That title refers in part to George W. Bush, but chiefly to Saddam Hussein: It was Nixon who first interrogated the notorious Iraqi leader, a slippery subject and indignant prisoner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The comparison between the two managers isn’t perfect because “quality” is a slippery category to define.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Gauff drilled her footwork, working to optimize her explosive speed for a slippery surface where hard stops and aggressive sprinting can often backfire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The samples revealed a 100 foot thick layer of pelagic clay, an extremely soft, slippery sediment formed over millions of years as microscopic particles slowly settled to the seafloor.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

George moves more quickly than Axel has ever seen before, through the gate, down the walkway, even on the uneven stones, even over the slippery leaves on the ground.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

Keep these traits in check the next time you find yourself in a horror film scenario: curiosity—the genre’s original sin—and dissatisfaction, its slipperier cousin.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

The iPhone SE is slightly taller, wider, and heavier than the Mini — not to mention slipperier with its rounded corners.

From The Verge ● Sep. 8, 2022

Osunde will soon illustrate its slipperier connotations, which touch both the marginalized and the powerful — albeit differently of course.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2022

Lines are abundant, but slipperier, in Linda Cafritz’s paintings.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021

Ma was growing heavier and slipperier, and my arms were aching from holding on to her.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

The new method proved exceptionally effective, as the team created the slipperiest liquid surface in the world.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

As he explains in his memoir, Ronnie was “a conman, fantasist, occasional jailbird, and my father. . . . Ronnie’s life was spent walking on the thinnest, slipperiest ice you can imagine.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020

East End Underworld by Raphael Samuel Published in 1981, this is the story of Arthur Harding, who was born in 1896 and became known as “the slipperiest character in Brick Lane”.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2019

But this relatively new double-tap, fave-thirsty existence that connects us to one another, it portends, is also the slipperiest of slopes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2017

Among the slipperiest of all is AIDS, which evolves new antigens even as it sits within an individual patient, thereby eventually overwhelming his or her immune system.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond