Slinking
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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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