Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery. 2. (a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise. 3. (a.) Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away. 4. (a.) Liable to slip; not standing firm. 5. (a.) Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle. 6. (a.) Uncertain in effect. 7. (a.) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.

Multi-Version Concordance Slippery (4 Occurrences) Psalms 35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV) Psalms 73:18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 23:12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Hosea 6:8 Gilead 'is' a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood. (YLT)