📖 Definitions of "Slinking"
verb
- 1
To sneak about furtively.
- 2
To give birth to an animal prematurely.
"a cow that slinks her calf"
noun
- 1
The act of one who slinks.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Slinking"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| skulkverb | To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection. |
| slippagenoun | A lessening of performance or achievement. |
| sneakingverb | Secret or underhand; not openly avowed. |
| slimingnoun | The action of coating with slime, or an instance of doing this. |
| lyingverb | An act or telling a lie or falsehood; the practice of telling lies. |
| slipagenoun | Dated spelling of slippage. |
| slopperynoun | Slippery and messy. |
| sneakingnessnoun | sneaking or underhand behaviour; cowardly concealment |
| slipnoun | An act or instance of slipping. |
| outslipverb | (obsolete, transitive) To escape, to slip away from. |
| lapsenoun | A temporary failure; a slip. |
| sneakerynoun | Involving or characteristic of sneakers. |
| asslingnoun | The act of loafing around; hesitation |
| slightingnoun | The act of giving a slight or snub. |
| slipslopnoun | Poor writing; text that is imprecise, weak, or overly informal. |
| skirtingverb | The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it. |
| shaftingnoun | (slang) The act of deceiving or harming a person. |
| backslidingnoun | An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense. |
| slipupnoun | Alternative form of slip-up. [(idiomatic) A (small) error or mistake; a (minor) misstep.] |
| dissemblancenoun | (uncountable) Dissembling, as a kind of behavior; dissembling, generally. |
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