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as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
that guy's a real slime, so avoid him at all costs
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Recent Examples of slime
The sticky, putrid-smelling slime that coats its surface contains the mushroom’s spores.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The impressive lobby-level facility keeps kids entertained with several engaging facilities like a zipline, a performance stage, a splatter room, and a slime zone, among many others.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2024
After navigating a few early hiccups—which included, of all things, snail slime—TikTok Shop proved formidable; the app’s surge in vendors outpaced competitors like Amazon, which TikTok ultimately wants to replace (or at least dethrone).
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
So far, the colors of the year decided by the paint industry seem to be leaning into purple, crimson, slime, and mocha tones.
—Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 19 Dec. 2024
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
The impressive lobby-level facility keeps kids entertained with several engaging facilities like a zipline, a performance stage, a splatter room, and a slime zone, among many others.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2024
After navigating a few early hiccups—which included, of all things, snail slime—TikTok Shop proved formidable; the app’s surge in vendors outpaced competitors like Amazon, which TikTok ultimately wants to replace (or at least dethrone).
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
So far, the colors of the year decided by the paint industry seem to be leaning into purple, crimson, slime, and mocha tones.
—Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slime
Noun
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In the Los Angeles area, mud and debris covered several major roads including the Pacific Coast Highway near the Pacific Palisades and Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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This time-lapse shows floodwater, mud and debris spilling into the Bailey Canyon Debris Basin, located near the Eaton Fire burn scar.—
Hanna Park and Mary Gilbert,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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Schedule creep has been happening for many years, as detailed in this excellent BBC News explainer from 2019.—
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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That horrible finale, the revelations that Devin was a big ol’ creep who should have never been on the season at all, whatever was/is happening between Jenn and Sasha from Dancing With the Stars, the goddamned election, the film Emilia Peréz.—
Ali Barthwell,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
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There 100% would've been road bumps and conflicts, but not this agonizingly repetitive sludge.—
Anthony Slater,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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The document indicated the waste may have included alum mud — a potentially radioactive sludge and byproduct of aluminum processing.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Dec. 2024
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While the aforementioned gamer creep threatens to rob us of silly confrontational television, there’s been one thing stopping them and making season three entertaining: The Traitors picked this season are dysfunctional clowns.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
6 Feb. 2025
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There was a good joke buried in that conceit: maybe only clowns spend as much time in the makeup chair as the drag artists that have provided Roan the inspiration for her primary look.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
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Another of the girls called Essex a pervert, which prompted their mother to ask more questions.—
Keri Blakinger,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Dec. 2024
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The imagery is intended to mock and reflect modern Japan in some way — from the overworked salarymen gleefully staging suicidal leaps off of buildings to the schoolgirls (who, in the dream, have cell phones for heads) exposing themselves to perverts (who also have cell phones for heads).—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
28 Sep. 2024
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Diagnosed first with Jeavons syndrome in 2018/19—a rare form of epilepsy characterized by absence seizures and eyelid jerks—a 1,000-gene epilepsy panel in 2020 revealed further health problems.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
30 Dec. 2024
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My job was to go over there and not be a jerk and try to advance the stand-up ball a couple of yards for the next guy that comes over there.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
14 Jan. 2025
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Daisy's career begins when she gets discovered by Hank Allen, who would go on to briefly become her manager and slimeball boyfriend.—
Chelsey Sanchez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
3 Mar. 2023
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The former is dormant for now, while the latter has picked up nearly 1,500 followers with a steady stream of off-putting memes and videos featuring the anthropomorphized slimeball.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2023
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The remains were found by two men who were running their dogs and looking for rocks, according to DNASolves.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Sep. 2023
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Responding officers found the dog, and advised the owner to take the dog in.—
cleveland,
cleveland,
13 Sep. 2023
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“Slime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slime. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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