Bible Dictionaries
Slippery
King James Dictionary
SLIP'PERY, a.
1. Smooth glib having the quality opposite to adhesiveness as, oily substances render things slippery.
2. Not affording firm footing or confidence as a slippery promise. The slipp'ry tops of human state.
3. Not easily held liable or apt to slip away. The slipp'ry god will try to loose his hold.
4. Not standing firm, as slippery standers.
5. Unstable changeable mutable uncertain as the slippery state of kings.
6. Not certain in its effect as a slippery trick.
7. Lubrious wanton unchaste.
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Entry for 'Slippery'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/slippery.html.