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as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
that guy's a real slime, so avoid him at all costs
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Recent Examples of slime
There’s Alien’s chunky computer screens, splashed with xenomorph slime and android milk.
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Yussef Cole, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
The book follows Matty, who loves to make creations with slime.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
The slime creature looks like it's made of the same material as the game's slurp juice, which is what players use to heal themselves.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
To reduce stress without screens, Slavens suggests activities involving physical touch, like squeezing slime or kinesthetic sand, drawing, or journaling.
—Holly Garcia, Parents, 27 Jan. 2025
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Yussef Cole, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
The book follows Matty, who loves to make creations with slime.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
The slime creature looks like it's made of the same material as the game's slurp juice, which is what players use to heal themselves.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
To reduce stress without screens, Slavens suggests activities involving physical touch, like squeezing slime or kinesthetic sand, drawing, or journaling.
—Holly Garcia, Parents, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slime
Noun
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In the Los Angeles area, mud and debris covered several major roads including the Pacific Coast Highway near the Pacific Palisades and Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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This time-lapse shows floodwater, mud and debris spilling into the Bailey Canyon Debris Basin, located near the Eaton Fire burn scar.—
Hanna Park and Mary Gilbert,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Older tracking devices might not set off an alert, and savvy creeps can reconfigure new trackers to follow you undetected for months.—
Kim Komando,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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Schedule creep has been happening for many years, as detailed in this excellent BBC News explainer from 2019.—
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
Noun
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There's a Lawrenceville location, too. ☕️ Pro tip: Sip slowly to avoid a mouthful of finely ground sludge at the bottom of the cup.—
Ryan Deto,
Axios,
24 Feb. 2025
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Now, the agency recycles sludge on more than 17,000 acres of private farmland in North and South Carolina, Frost confirmed.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Feb. 2025
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While the aforementioned gamer creep threatens to rob us of silly confrontational television, there’s been one thing stopping them and making season three entertaining: The Traitors picked this season are dysfunctional clowns.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
6 Feb. 2025
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There was a good joke buried in that conceit: maybe only clowns spend as much time in the makeup chair as the drag artists that have provided Roan the inspiration for her primary look.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
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Another of the girls called Essex a pervert, which prompted their mother to ask more questions.—
Keri Blakinger,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024
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The imagery is intended to mock and reflect modern Japan in some way — from the overworked salarymen gleefully staging suicidal leaps off of buildings to the schoolgirls (who, in the dream, have cell phones for heads) exposing themselves to perverts (who also have cell phones for heads).—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
28 Sep. 2024
Noun
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With that put to bed, our attention turns back to the husbands, and all the new rumors from this season, like Lisa bringing up Shawn’s name in regards to circle jerks.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2025
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Diagnosed first with Jeavons syndrome in 2018/19—a rare form of epilepsy characterized by absence seizures and eyelid jerks—a 1,000-gene epilepsy panel in 2020 revealed further health problems.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Daisy's career begins when she gets discovered by Hank Allen, who would go on to briefly become her manager and slimeball boyfriend.—
Chelsey Sanchez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
3 Mar. 2023
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The former is dormant for now, while the latter has picked up nearly 1,500 followers with a steady stream of off-putting memes and videos featuring the anthropomorphized slimeball.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2023
Noun
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According to LifeLine, the DeKalb shelter takes in 135 dogs a week on average.—
Jim Gaines,
ajc,
13 Sep. 2023
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The remains were found by two men who were running their dogs and looking for rocks, according to DNASolves.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Sep. 2023
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“Slime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slime. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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