Sentence examples for was slimy from inspiring English sources

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was slimy

adjective

Of or pertaining to, resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, yielding, abounding in slime; viscous; glutinous.

  • Slimy things did crawl with legs

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That was slimy.

My first reaction was that the oyster was slimy and disgusting.

That assertion drew guffaws and worse from pundits, particularly the business journalist Gary Weiss, who wrote on his blog (garyweiss.blogspot.com) that the practice was "slimy".

"It was slimy and gushy, and it was fun," said Bella Oliveto, 9, who likes to watch food shows like "Cake Boss".

The plunge-bath was "slimy", the towels "always-damp … with their cheesy smell" and on a rare winter visit to the local baths he sees in the "murky seawater" there is "floating a human turd".

7. Take public transport now and then, just to remind yourself of what you're not missing Last time I got on a train there were no spare seats, and the bar I gripped to keep me upright was slimy with what I quickly realised could only be other people's bodily fluids.

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It's slimy.

"It will be slimy," he has observed.

I'm slimy, repellent and glamorous".

There's also a conger eel, which being slimy, is sure to be immortal.

/ His fat fingers are slimy like slugs, / And his words are absolute, like grocers' weights.

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