slimy
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By this point, the mushrooms are sturdy rather than slimy, rich without being heavy and flexible enough to become dinner in several different directions.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
It is black and slimy, white and fuzzy, or green and spongy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
In the weeks since the Reflecting Pool’s makeover went south, many have seized what is a rich and slimy opportunity for metaphor.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
"The monster itself is very Cthulhu-esque seaside horror - octopussy, tentacles, slimy, gross - that kind of thing."
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
It’s rocky and wet and slimy and we lean as close as we can to the rock side, away from the thundering water.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
But Mendoza’s ascent to the analyst role has triggered enough bile from some of the slimier precincts of social media that Mendoza avoids Twitter except to seek baseball-related news, and rarely reads comments about herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
Not everything worked in the film, a darker, slimier spinoff adjacent to Sony Pictures’ “Spider-verse” Marvel world.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
Even with Jim Bakker, who was the much slimier character, there’s a sense that every time you see him, he’s not twirling the metaphorical mustache.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2021
Who am I to begrudge anyone for seeking out joy in the midst of a pandemic even if that joy starts with a slimier, sweatier depiction of another pandemic?
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2020
After a lot of shouting to persuade the dog to keep near me, I turned back and went through the mud again, past the cross-roads junction, and along a still slimier, water-logged cart-track.
From Pushed and the Return Push by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
A great piece in the WSJ today from reporters Thomas Grove and Alan Cullison illustrates one of the slimiest realities of life in Washington.
From Fox News ● Nov. 8, 2019
The five-year stretch from 1984 to 1989, from Ghostbusters to Ghostbusters 2, was the slimiest in American history.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2016
“They are the slimiest fish you’ve ever seen in your life,” says Odenkirk.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2013
Made by Native Instruments, it's a synthesizer plug-in that sits in a producer's laptop or digital audio workstation and allows him or her to slather different synth-textures together to make the sickest, slimiest bassline.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2012
The flower beds had shriveled up and were crawling with the fattest, slimiest slugs I'd ever seen.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
