Slinking
"Slinking" in a Sentence (2 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.
[A]t midnight, after wanderings that were but slinkings away from cheerfulness and light, I slunk to my bed.
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