as in muddy
full of or covered with soft wet earth
please remove your slimy boots before coming into the house
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What Happens If Cilantro Goes Bad? Cilantro will become slimy and dark in color.
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Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
For Lucca, Cronenberg’s trademark anatomical derangements — all those slimy, mutant body organs, guts and intestines spilling out of his characters like slinky toys — are how the director makes a character’s anxieties manifest: the deliquescing body as a metaphor for spiritual imbalance.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
The doctor is still winding the slimy material around his wrist and hand, and the separate layers of material have started to merge into one another, forming a single white mass, which the doctor smooths and molds.
—David Szalay, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
And while the phrase snail essence may conjure images of slime, rest assured: the ingredient is silky, rather than slimy.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
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Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
For Lucca, Cronenberg’s trademark anatomical derangements — all those slimy, mutant body organs, guts and intestines spilling out of his characters like slinky toys — are how the director makes a character’s anxieties manifest: the deliquescing body as a metaphor for spiritual imbalance.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
The doctor is still winding the slimy material around his wrist and hand, and the separate layers of material have started to merge into one another, forming a single white mass, which the doctor smooths and molds.
—David Szalay, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
And while the phrase snail essence may conjure images of slime, rest assured: the ingredient is silky, rather than slimy.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Slimy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slimy. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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