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slouching

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slouch  (slouch)
v. slouched, slouch·ing, slouch·es
v.intr.
1. To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture.
2. To droop or hang carelessly, as a hat.
v.tr.
To cause to droop; stoop.
n.
1. An awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture or gait.
2. Slang An awkward, lazy, or inept person: good at chess and no slouch at bridge, either.
[Origin unknown.]
sloucher n.
slouchi·ly adv.
slouchi·ness n.
slouchy adj.
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slouching
adjective shambling, lumbering, ungainly, awkward, uncouth, loutish


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He lodged at a sluice-keeper's out on the marshes, and on working days would come slouching from his hermitage, with his hands in his pockets and his dinner loosely tied in a bundle round his neck and dangling on his back.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
Durdles with his dinner-bundle in his hand, is indeed beheld slouching towards them.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles View in context
The cares of a kingdom do not stoop the shoulders, they do not droop the chin, they do not depress the high level of the eye-glance, they do not put doubt and fear in the heart and hang out the signs of them in slouching body and unsure step.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
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