Thesaurus / slimy
FEEDBACKHow to use slimy in a sentence
I guess you’d be grateful that something sold because it’s money, but like, eww, it’s slimy.
“I’VE BEEN WORKING MY ASS OFF FOR YOU TO MAKE THAT PROFIT?” (EP. 485)STEPHEN J. DUBNERDECEMBER 9, 2021FREAKONOMICSIn the warm, humid jungle, the chicken soon rotted, turning slimy and stinky.
MEAT-EATING BEES HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH VULTURESSHARON OOSTHOEKDECEMBER 8, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSPut it in a wide mug or shallow bowl with an inch or two of water, leaf-side up, and check it often to make sure the outside isn’t getting slimy.
6 WAYS TO MAGICALLY REGROW VEGETABLES IN ONLY WATERNATALIE WALLINGTONOCTOBER 7, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEKelp has a particularly short harvesting window, and once “landed,” it has to be kept cold or it will turn slimy.
CAN KELP BE TRENDY? FARMERS ARE BETTING ON IT.KLINDSEYJULY 16, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEGleeson is an international treasure, and he tried his best, but Showtime’s The Comey Rule was a snooze, and his portrayal of 45 didn’t exactly break the slimy, mouth-breathing mold.
THE 11 WEIRDEST GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS—AND WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED INSTEADELIANA DOCKTERMANFEBRUARY 3, 2021TIMEBlythe worries she’s inherited damaged DNA when it comes to mothering, especially when she gives birth to Violet and feels strangely unmoved by this “warm, screaming loaf of bread” with “slimy and dark” eyes who’s placed on her chest to nurse.
WHY IS ‘THE PUSH’ SO POPULAR? PERHAPS BECAUSE IT PLAYS INTO A MOTHER’S WORST FEARS.MAUREEN CORRIGANJANUARY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMucus is recognized from its characteristic slimy appearance when the fluid is poured from one vessel into another.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDThey will soon take me out—they will lean me against a wall—a slimy wall like this, perhaps.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANHe dreamt of a serpent coiling around his throat, and when he strove to grasp it the slimy thing glided away from his clutch.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThese may be seen in groups of six or eight, sunning themselves on the slimy banks of the river or on the numerous sandbanks.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERWORDS RELATED TO SLIMY
- bedraggled
- begrimed
- black
- contaminated
- cruddy
- crummy
- defiled
- disarrayed
- dishabille
- disheveled
- dreggy
- dungy
- dusty
- filthy
- foul
- fouled
- greasy
- grimy
- grubby
- grungy
- icky
- lousy
- messy
- mucky
- muddy
- murky
- nasty
- polluted
- raunchy
- scummy
- scuzzy
- slatternly
- slimy
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smudged
- smutty
- soiled
- sooty
- spattered
- spotted
- squalid
- stained
- straggly
- sullied
- unclean
- undusted
- unhygienic
- unkempt
- unlaundered
- unsanitary
- unsightly
- unswept
- untidy
- unwashed
- yucky
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