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slinking

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slink  (slngk)
v. slunk (slngk) also slinked, slink·ing, slinks
v.intr.
To move in a quiet furtive manner; sneak: slunk away ashamed; a cat slinking through the grass toward its prey.
v.tr.
To give birth to prematurely: The cow slinked its calf.
n.
An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely.
adj.
Born prematurely.
[Middle English slinken, from Old English slincan.]
slinking·ly adv.
Translations
slinking [ˈslɪŋkɪŋ] adj (movement) → furtivo/a
slinking [ˈslɪŋkɪŋ] adj (movement) → furtivo/a


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At the time he had been at the bottom of his heart surprised that all this had not greeted him with songs and incense, but now (he made no secret of it) he made his entry in a slinking fashion past the doorkeeper's glass box.
Chance by Conrad, Joseph View in context
There was doubt in his mind that some note of the approaching blacks vibrating with fear had struck an answering chord in the nervous system of the panther, sending him slinking through the jungle, his tail between his legs.
The Beasts of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The legal gentleman being by this time rather giddy and perplexed in his ideas (for this was one of the operations of the tobacco on his nervous system), took the opportunity of slinking away into the open air, where, in course of time, he recovered sufficiently to return with a countenance of tolerable composure.
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