Adjective: slimsy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | slimsier |
| Superlative | slimsiest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more slimsy |
| Superlative | most slimsy |
Sample Sentences
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In front of the store, and in and out of the interminable pushcarts, with their flaring oil-lamps at night illuminating a bewildering miscellany of merchandise,—everything from spoiled grapefruit to slimsy suspenders, Rosey played and fought and bit her way. [1922, Robert Gordon Anderson, The Isle of Seven Moons, Chapter 8:]
Adjectives inflected like slimsy
snubby,
snithy,
snorty,
snoopy,
sainty,
screwy,
scowly,
schizy,
smacky,
slimsy,
slanty,
slaggy,
songly,
soothy,
shysty,
shiply,
skeezy,
beastly,
yearny,
whip-creamy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Blend of slim + flimsy.