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adj. causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain"

slippery, tricky

adj. not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee

waxy, waxlike, ceraceous

adj. resembling or covered with wax; "as shiny as a waxy pippin"; "the ceraceous surface of the leaves"

oily

adj. coated or covered with oil; "oily puddles in the streets"

sleek

adj. well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed; "sleek figures in expensive clothes"

saponaceous, soapy

adj. resembling or having the qualities of soap; "a soapy consistency"

sneaky, underhand, underhanded

adj. marked by deception; "achieved success in business only by underhand methods"

deceptive, misleading, shoddy

adj. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"

false, faithless

adj. (untrustworthy)

fly-by-night, shady

adj. (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous; "a shady operation"

devious, shifty

adj. characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes"

unreliable, undependable

adj. not to be trusted

nonslippery

adj. not slippery; not likely to slip or skid

rough, unsmooth

adj. having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

trustworthy, trusty

adj. worthy of trust or belief; "a trustworthy report"; "an experienced and trustworthy traveling companion"

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