adj.
 (slipperier, slipperiest)
  - difficult to hold firmly or stand on through being smooth, wet, or slimy.
- (of a person) evasive and unpredictable. ▸(of a word or concept) changing in meaning according to context or point of view. 
Phrase
  
    
      - slippery slope
 a course of action likely to lead to something bad.
 
  Derivative
  
    - slipperily adv.
- slipperiness n.
 
  Etymology
  C15: from dial. slipper ‘slippery’, prob. suggested by Luther's schlipfferig.