The slipperiness was a disadvantage on the ground, since the aircraft leaked fuel when not flying, but at least JP-7 was not a fire hazard. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
I don't think that "slipperiness" adequately characterizes what we're dealing with here. From Wordnik.com. [Income and Wealth: Alan Reynolds is Not Galileo] Reference
The advantage of true 100% synthetics isn't measured in lubrication qualities like "slipperiness", but more in longevity and "usability". From Wordnik.com. [Cyril Huze Blog] Reference
'slipperiness' or looseness that will make getting out a challenge. From Wordnik.com. [Planetary Society Daily Almanac] Reference
"slipperiness" number that tells how easily or how poorly one surface moves over another. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
Then there's a certain slipperiness about much of the document. From Wordnik.com. [Tory health policy is confused and contradictory: so why do they want to talk about it?] Reference
Other people have had the pleasure of exposing that slipperiness. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Everything about the word -- conjures slipperiness, ostentatious religiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Top Lieberman Campaign Official: We Begged Obama For Help In 2006 -- And He Came Through] Reference
The majority have broken knees, owing to the great slipperiness of the pavements. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
We went on again, the track now really dangerous from denudation and slipperiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
She washed her hair and soaped her body, revelling in the slipperiness against her skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
Now look at his slipperiness over Jerusalem, on which his rousing statement to AIPAC that. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
While taking Stein's class, I frequently recall feeling frustrated by populism's slipperiness. From Wordnik.com. [Banana Republic, U.S.A.? "Populism" Comes to America] Reference
It's the slipperiness of the Clinton campaign that I think David was just sort of referring to. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2008] Reference
His touch traveled upward, sliding across the slipperiness of the fabric to the nape of my neck. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
She knew none of these things, and the slipperiness of her predicament left her with nothing to grasp. From Wordnik.com. [Memory of Fire]
Shucks, I misused it for years myself; it's a prime example of the slipperiness of the English tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
The second is very plausible but extremely vague given the slipperiness of the modal term “might”. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons for Action: Justification vs. Explanation] Reference
She walked there, carefully, trying not to think of the warm slipperiness that streaked down her thighs. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
They laughed together over the fact that the stove did not draw, over the slipperiness of fish in the pan. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
But while political elites may get agitated over such slipperiness, average voters don't seem to care much. From Wordnik.com. [The Resurrection of Crist] Reference
With regard to Ramadan his slipperiness got him removed in Rotterdam, hardly a hotbed of far right activity. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
There had been rain, and that spasmodic walk of his was enhanced by the extreme slipperiness of the footpath. From Wordnik.com. [First Men in the Moon] Reference
I released my breath, marveling at my slipperiness: I had glided through so many dangers and emerged unscathed. From Wordnik.com. [Earthly Possessions]
It's just that my legs, after years of inactivity, got a little overexcited to be confronted with so much slipperiness. From Wordnik.com. [I'm A Stranger Here Myself]
Sore trouble had I to keep close quarters, from the slipperiness of the stone beneath me with the water sliding over it. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
His weight told, and he dragged her up from the hole and they fell together on the floor outside the zone of slipperiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lair of the White Worm] Reference
"These here slippery mornings'll be the death of me, " he said, looking at Bets as if she were responsible for the slipperiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Strange Bundle]
The conger-eel, however, devours the octopus, for owing to the slipperiness of its antagonist the octopus can make nothing of it. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
We played at Princeton when the field at that time combined the elements of stickiness and slipperiness to an unbelievable extent. From Wordnik.com. [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference
The recent debate about women's reportedly-declining happiness highlights the slipperiness of subjective indicators of well-being. From Wordnik.com. [Philip N. Cohen: Who Needs Marriage?] Reference
"You are so beautiful, my own," he whispered to me, touching the slipperiness between my legs, the tender skin of my inner thighs. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
As he did so she rose to her full slender height, finding more dignity in standing on two feet, despite the slipperiness of the dock. From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
This sort of slipperiness -- about both what the truth was and whether the truth even mattered -- persisted on questions great and small. From Wordnik.com. [Shannyn Moore: "Death Panels" For Dummies] Reference
By contrast, Mr. Obama's candidacy rests on the promise of transcendence, though in practice that often seems like a form of slipperiness. From Wordnik.com. [From 9/11 to 11/4] Reference
All these centuries later, the McCain-Palin campaign is demonizing language and not just using it with that politics-as-usual slipperiness. From Wordnik.com. [Caryn James: On Wordiness, Godliness and Truthiness: The McCain-Palin Assault on Language] Reference
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