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Meanings of slimy in English

Morally reprehensible.

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      Pejorative expression for a person who gets on the nerves of others by constantly trying or pretending to do them favours and ask favours from them in a deceptive and unpleasantly submissive way for his or her own benefit.

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            Covered with or resembling slime.

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                  Usage of slimy in English
                  1
                  The ocean in the spaces between the foam was slimy in appearance.
                  The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
                  2
                  Into a stinking ditch; into water that was thick, cold, and slimy.
                  The lake
                  3
                  Ice after freezing to prevent the icing going slimy and coming off.
                  Radio NZ
                  4
                  The water was warm, slimy, and smelled like a clogged sink drain.
                  The Child Thief
                  5
                  Maybe it's an easy target because Robin Thicke is kind of slimy.
                  The Guardian
                  6
                  It is worms, large and slimy, and fleas in the thundering millions.
                  The new yorker
                  7
                  He was wet, slimy; his clothes were streaked and stained with mud.
                  Rainbow's End
                  8
                  Both shoes were gone, in midair, before they reached the slimy floor.
                  Witch Week
                  9
                  He shivered as if he had cold slimy water next his skin.
                  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
                  10
                  You can see why. She caressed a hand down the slimy hide.
                  The Laughing Corpse
                  11
                  Weary and slimy with wet mud, I shot down the cable line.
                  The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
                  12
                  I don't need your offering to pay for this little slimy suit.
                  Ebony
                  13
                  It was a wall, seemingly of stone masonry-verysmooth, slimy, and cold.
                  Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
                  14
                  Mixed with the pebbles was a greenish, slimy matter that appeared woolly.
                  Ismailia
                  15
                  Thanks for leaving your slimy washcloth in the middle of the shower.
                  Ender’s Game
                  16
                  He tipped the slimy residue into a sluice hammered into the floor.
                  Perdido Street Station
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