Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a slimy manner, literally or figuratively.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a slimy manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a slimy way.

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Examples

  • So, given his criminal and adolescent track record, it's no shock to discover James O'Keefe slimily trying to seduce a young woman on camera for no reason but to debase her.

    Robert J. Elisberg: Apparently, It's Hard Out Here for This Pimp, too Robert J. Elisberg 2010

  • Judith Hooper slimily suggested Bernard Kettlewell committed fraud, without any evidence to back it up.

    Casey Luskin on Kitzmiller & Information 2010

  • Best of all, the representation of the city itself possesses a layered density and oddness, especially in its new Gray-Cap incarnation something helped by knowing it from Vandermeer's earlier novels, with its monstrous fungal cathedrals, dark streets and bizarre inhabitants: a spore-heavy richness, an acrid closeness, slimily and pongily effective.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • Best of all, the representation of the city itself possesses a layered density and oddness, especially in its new Gray-Cap incarnation something helped by knowing it from Vandermeer's earlier novels, with its monstrous fungal cathedrals, dark streets and bizarre inhabitants: a spore-heavy richness, an acrid closeness, slimily and pongily effective.

    Jeff Vandermeer, Finch (209) Adam Roberts 2010

  • Of the announcement that landed in his inbox this morning, he says, I'm finding it ridiculous that all of our pay services now have to come bundled with advertising...and it was really slimily written too...until now, as a DSL subscriber, I received the non-ad supported webmail service, so by placing ads in my webmail, you've just removed services from me in effect...

    AT&T DSL Downgrades Email, That You Pay For, To Include Ads - The Consumerist 2007

  • How many, who amidst this compound of sickening smells, these heaps of filth, these tumbling houses, with all their vile contents, animate, and inanimate, slimily overflowing into the black road, would believe that they breathe

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • My life had shape, it was starting to feel like it might even be significant and useful, but something wasn't shaping up right, and I am back to being a ball of messy, soggy, somewhat slimily disgusting yet oddly fascinating potters' clay with unlimited potential but no real concept of what I'm going to be.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Happy 2007

  • My life had shape, it was starting to feel like it might even be significant and useful, but something wasn't shaping up right, and I am back to being a ball of messy, soggy, somewhat slimily disgusting yet oddly fascinating potters' clay with unlimited potential but no real concept of what I'm going to be.

    Not Quite So Late Night Ramblings Happy 2007

  • He saw nothing; yet he sensed, somehow, an invisible, bodiless thing that hovered in the air, dripping slimily and mouthing obscenities that he could not hear but was in some instinctive way aware of.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • He saw nothing; yet he sensed, somehow, an invisible, bodiless thing that hovered in the air, dripping slimily and mouthing obscenities that he could not hear but was in some instinctive way aware of.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

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