'slippery' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use 'slippery' to describe things that are hard to hold on to or something that is making it difficult for someone to maintain their footing. Example sentence: The rocks on the side of the mountain were slippery, making it difficult for the hikers to ascend.
While some may say the changes in England have so far only been at the margins, it is the risk of a slippery slope that should cause concern.
That may sound simple, but the slippery definition of affordable housing has shifted yet again.
Much of it was a "slippery slope" argument: if the Gates Foundation divested from every firm which failed social responsibility tests, soon there'd be almost nothing left to invest in.
Murray broke three times in the first set; the only problem was that he was broken three times himself as both men attacked the other's second serve, trying to get in the first hit to put their opponent off-balance on a warm day when the court was more slippery than in the first week.
Quotes, like facts, are now more slippery than ever.
Amalinze was a wily craftsman, but Okonkwo was as slippery as a fish in water.
Wanderers were broken, the din driving the home side on with the slippery pace and movement of their front line irrepressible.
"Looking for something fishy, something nice and slippery, gringa?" A mountainous woman, her arms elbow-deep in a basket of prawns, sniffed her fingers ostentatiously as I made my way between the overflowing food stalls in the crowded market.
England lost their grip once again on Australia's slippery middle order in a slack post-lunch session at the Sydney Cricket Ground, but there was some consolation in a feisty bowling performance as the clouds gathered later in the day, and no great surprise that it should be Ben Stokes who provided a sense of incision against the tail.
Four hours of solid stitching later – of slippery hands and yelling at instructions, of holding the needle with pliers because sewing through three layers of shoe leather is basically like pushing a buffalo carcass through a catflap – and the name Simple Way started to look like a sarcastic threat.
All this has been written – proving only that gay marriage is indeed a slippery slope for the sanity of its opponents.
