Slinking

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who slinks.

    "[A]t midnight, after wanderings that were but slinkings away from cheerfulness and light, I slunk to my bed."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of slink form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"My wife had always been a woman of a frank, open nature, and it gave me a chill to see her slinking into her own room, and crying out and wincing when her own husband spoke to her."

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