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as in bastards
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
that guy's a real slime, so avoid him at all costs
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as in creeps
a person of low moral character
he's the kind of slime that TV reality shows love to cast as a villain
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Recent Examples of slimes
Sticks of butter were everywhere this Toy Fair, from smiling plushies to squishies to buttery smooth slimes.
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Anja Webb, Parents, 24 Feb. 2026
Such is the case in Wuthering Heights with Cathy (Margot Robbie), who sees her desire for Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) made manifest by various goos, oozes, and slimes found on the Yorkshire moors.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
The slimes are also changed regularly, Robinovitz said.
—Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2026
Anja Webb, Parents, 24 Feb. 2026
Such is the case in Wuthering Heights with Cathy (Margot Robbie), who sees her desire for Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) made manifest by various goos, oozes, and slimes found on the Yorkshire moors.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
The slimes are also changed regularly, Robinovitz said.
—Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slimes
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Before the fretting reaches a head, one of Barbieri’s backing oscillators creeps forward into a nimble major-key ostinato that sounds like it was lifted from a Lorenzo Senni daydream, transforming a slight shift in timbre and time signature into a crescendo of new hope.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
2 Mar. 2026
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Lunar eclipses happen when the Earth passes directly between the sun and moon, casting a gigantic shadow that creeps across the moon’s surface.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Smarmy jerks can get obscenely wealthy in this country just by managing other people’s money.—
Gilad Edelman,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2026
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Moreover, where most clients are great, some are jerks.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Nora Ephron for depressed perverts.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2026
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Also, what many now interpret as Kubrick’s exposé of elite perverts was, in fact, mostly Schnitzler’s doing.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
17 Dec. 2025
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In front of him, idolatrous Republican lawmakers popped up and down to applaud like clowns in wind-up music boxes of old.—
Jackie Calmes,
Mercury News,
27 Feb. 2026
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An episodic framework, physical comedy, a small ensemble of actors who are all at home in their clowns and who will all, at some point, drop the mask to speak to us as themselves — for Ogawa, these are ways to bring effervescence and intimacy to the contemplation of insoluble, heavy things.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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Streiber said the event gives their animals new experiences but is also excellent enrichment for dogs.—
Julia James,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Nearby, people and their dogs who had moved into the shelter for the duration of the war lounged on air mattresses, scrolling through their phones.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Some mammal species are highly susceptible to HPAI, including domestic cats, skunks, foxes, raccoons, bobcats, mountain lions and black bears.—
Faith Bugenhagen,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Feb. 2026
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The residents safely trapped the skunk and took it to a wildlife rescue center.—
Frederick Sutton Sinclair,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Each parking lot has its own special symbol (besides the blue dolphin and the yellow toucan, there are red snappers, pink flamingos, green toads and white sea horses) and is planted with a different tree species.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
23 Feb. 2026
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Participants will be trained to learn the chirps and croaks of various local frog and toad species, then commit to going out to a particular piece of the watershed near their homes a couple of nights per month to listen for the frogs and toads and record their absence or presence.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Slimes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slimes. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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