Sentence examples for slippery word from inspiring English sources

Snobbery is a slippery word.

"Traditional" is a slippery word.

Start with that slippery word "intelligence".

But freedom, like terror, is a slippery word.

"Heirloom is a slippery word," Mr. Weaver said.

Morgan c Mathews b Kulasekara 57 (England 152-3) A very slippery word.

The title "OK/Okay" alludes to the uncertain etymology of the word, to suggest how slippery words and their meanings can be.

Such ambiguous, commonly misunderstood and slippery words such as beauty and kitsch are what we have to work with to talk about the phenomenon before us.

The slippery wording bars artists from simply copying older works, but leaves wiggle room to use others' art as the basis for new pieces.

(At War uses that ever-slippery word "sniper" generously; for further discussion of its meaning here, read this post and its companion from the current Afghan war).

But "should" is a slippery old word.