'slippery question' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a question which is difficult to answer because it is vague or lacks definable parameters. For example: "The interviewer asked a slippery question about my long-term career goals, and I did not know how to answer it effectively."
What exactly they deserve to be paid, however, remains a slippery question.
This is a perennial but weirdly slippery question among hyphenated writers, so answer-averse it's almost rhetorical, almost boring.
Another, more slippery question is whether the self-righteous convictions behind "Black Radio" can resonate the same way this time around.
On the slippery question of "How bad was Fukushima," two Stanford University researchers have published a paper that casts the accident in a new light.
All those proposed rules, however, will be considered in light of the slippery question of what counts as the game's "essence".
Its research into the slippery question of how poor countries can grow prosperous is always more comprehensive, and sometimes more brilliant, than anything else on offer.
In both novels, slippery questions of identity rub sticks with religion and sexuality.
For all of Maguire's careful planning, however, the jump from his earlier art-house films to the blockbuster realm of "Spider-Man" brought new and slippery questions into play.
Mr Whitfield poses slippery questions: Why have Jews been so important to American culture and what is Jewish about what they have brought to it?They are hard to answer in one volume and Mr Whitfield does not do well against the odds.
It's the slippery slope question.
Questions of voter residency, he said, "are very slippery, difficult questions, because each person's life circumstance is different... that's precisely the reason you would want independent judicial review".
