Crossword clues for slithery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slithery
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the sea flooded around them, the boy grabbed an axe and hacked at the slithery tentacles.
▪ As we began our slithery descent to the shore, a kestrel hovered above the brow of the hill.
▪ Clear as a bell, yet slithery with innuendo, it leaped like a deer, slipped like a snake.
▪ Even the worms on the pavement, flooded out of their homes in the municipal flowerbeds, exude a slithery gentility.
▪ I could already see that look in his eyes, something slithery and pink that hints of alcoholic tendencies.
▪ Pretty much where they started -- full of loping bass lines and slithery sax riffs.
Wiktionary
slithery
a. That slithers; that moves like a snake.
WordNet
slithery
adj. having a slippery surface or quality ; "slithery mud"; "slithery eels"
Usage examples of "slithery".
Pods of slithery slauk popped beneath her boots, and she staggered sideways into a rock pool, barely regaining her balance.
And likewise to a man, it had arms, torso and legs, the latter shrivelled, twisted and protruding uselessly from the slithery mass that tapered away in flaps and tufts of fleshy membrane, to a scale-clad fish-tail.
The objects of the hunt are two slithery white soldiers of fortune who have taught a ragtag band of guerrillas how to fight and think like MauMaus, the PLO, and the Japanese army.