Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
slug or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Before I could issue the invite, what I’d describe as a sluglike creature thicker than my aunt Christine’s thigh and about four feet in length oozed its way across the dining room, up over the table where a couple happily continued their dining foreplay, then oozed down again, leaving a revolting smear of God-knows-what behind it.
Blood Brothers Roberts, Nora 2007
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It is quite a wild microbial zoo: Some of the microfossils are rod-shaped, some spherical, some sluglike, some almost slithery.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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It is quite a wild microbial zoo: Some of the microfossils are rod-shaped, some spherical, some sluglike, some almost slithery.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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A tractor spreading fertilizer crawled sluglike along the distant horizon—big yellow cab, tanklike wheels—a pleasant pastoral scene.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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At the renewed assault of that sluglike tongue, Beth went cold with horror.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Even then, I was pretending to myself that my fear was of becoming a commoner, the sort of sluglike semi-soul who never touches iron and who shudders at the slightest cut that bleeds.
Enjoyment 2010
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At the renewed assault of that sluglike tongue, Beth went cold with horror.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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She lifted the cover from the bowl, revealing several small dark sluglike objects, an inch or two long, covered with a disagreeable-looking liquid.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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I pressed his tongue down, and the sluglike appendage struggled against my fingers.
In This Way I Was Saved Brian DeLeeuw 2009
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And I have decided that it is time to start working on All the Windwracked Stars tonight, because I cannot stand my sluglike self another minute.
she wakes him up forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking greygirlbeast 2007
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