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slimy adjective [ ˈslʌɪmi ]

• covered by or resembling slime.
• "thick, slimy mud"
Similar: slippery, slithery, greasy, oozy, muddy, mucky, sludgy, miry, clammy, wet, sticky, viscous, viscid, mucilaginous, glutinous, mucous, mucoid, claggy, slippy, gunky, gooey, gloopy, gummy,
• repellently smooth and obsequious.
• "a slimy, cigar-puffing political fixer"
Similar: obsequious, sycophantic, excessively deferential, subservient, fawning, toadying, ingratiating, unctuous, oily, oleaginous, greasy, reptilian, grovelling, cringing, toadyish, sycophantish, slavish, abject, craven, humble, Uriah Heepish, self-abasing, bootlicking, smarmy, sucky, soapy, forelock-tugging, brown-nosing, apple-polishing, arse-licking, bum-sucking, kiss-ass, ass-kissing, suckholing,


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