Sentence examples for he was slippery from inspiring English sources

He was slippery.

Now it looks as if, rather than simply being clueless, he was slippery and evasive.

A random sample, from Dame Iris: Oh, he was slippery, slippery, touchy, proud.

He was slippery, but poetic.

He's slippery fast.

He's slippery, he's smart and he's great with the ball after the catch".

He is slippery on inconvenient facts and passes over issues that are too painful to confront.

Habana, who scored 14 tries in his first 15 Springbok Tests, is clearly as polite off the field as he is slippery on it.

As for Winston Churchill, he is slippery on the subject – though if I have a quarrel here, it is that Asante and Hibbert decline to show Winston on screen, perhaps out of sentimental superstition that Churchill can only be depicted in a positive context.

There are rules to govern a novel, he says, but they are slippery.

But they were slippery.