Definitions

lubricious

[loo-brish-uhs] / luˈbrɪʃ əs /

ADJECTIVE

underhand

Synonyms

WEAK

clandestine concealed crafty crooked cunning deceptive devious dirty-dealing dishonest dishonorable disingenuous double-crossing duplicitous fraudulent furtive guileful hush-hush indirect insidious oblique on the Q.T. on the quiet secret secretive shady shifty slippery sly sneaking sneaky stealthy surreptitious treacherous tricky two-faced two-timing under wraps undercover underhanded unethical unfair unjust unscrupulous wily

ADJECTIVE

slick

Synonyms

WEAK

glossy greasy icy oily oleaginous shiny sleek sleeky slippery slippery as an eel slithery soapy

Example Sentences

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The task of pulling the world back from nuclear war and annihilation falls to the lubricious Walter, who is irresponsible but cunning and determined.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2015

Playwright Sandra Deer has created a clan of faded gentry who mingle the greed of the family in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes with the lubricious dementia of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because Actress West's manner of dealing with her material is light-hearted rather than lubricious, Vm No Angel, like She Done Him Wrong, is much more amusing than offensive.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great number of severe accidents annually caused by the idiotic custom of casting orange-peel and such other lubricious integuments recklessly about the side-walks, has long furnished a topic for public animadversion.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870 by Various

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