English-Portuguese translations for slippery

• escorregadio
  Com esta proposta, estamos a enveredar por um terreno muito escorregadio. With this proposal, you are travelling down a very slippery slope.
  Imploro-vos, por isso, que abandonemos o caminho escorregadio que são estas decisões. I therefore implore that we get off the slippery slope of these decisions.
  Mas penso que o Parlamento Europeu entrou num piso escorregadio. The European Parliament has, in my view, embarked upon a slippery slope, however.
• liso

Definition of slippery

• Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc
• Evasive; difficult to pin down
• Liable to slip; not standing firm
• Unstable; changeable; inconstant
• Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals

Examples

• Oily substances render things slippery.
• a slippery person
• a slippery promise

Related words

• slippery jack
• slippery slope
• slippery as an eel
• slippery elm
• slippery ice
• caution - slippery when wet