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Sliminess

noun
1.
A property resembling or being covered with slime.
2.
The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions.  Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, vileness, wickedness.





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"Sliminess" Quotes from Famous Books



... out of the window an hour ago. The willow-tree opposite my study window is ready to put forth its leaves. There are some objections to willows. It is not a dry and cleanly tree; it impresses me with an association of sliminess; and no trees, I think, are perfectly satisfactory, which have not a firm and hard texture of trunk and branches. But the willow is almost the earliest to put forth its leaves, and the last to scatter them on the ground; ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2. • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... behind the majesty of the law. They struck, but no one was permitted to strike back, for behind them were the prison cells and the clubs of the stupid policemen—paid and professional fighters and beaters-up of men. Yet he was not bitter. The grossness and the sliminess of it was forgotten in the simple grotesqueness of it, and he had the saving ...
— The Night-Born • Jack London


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