Slouching
['slaʊtʃɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slouch
(a.) Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Awkward, uncouth, clownish, lubberly, loutish, ungainly.
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Examples
- He was a broadshouldered loose-limbed swarthy fellow of great strength, never in a hurry, and always slouching. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He received that piece of information with a yell of laughter, and dropped back, but came slouching after us at a little distance. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He then saw a slouching man of forbidding appearance standing in the midst of the school, with a bundle under his arm; and saw that it was Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mary Chivers was as tall and fair as her mother, but large-waisted, flat-chested and slightly slouching, as the altered fashion required. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The more I dressed him and the better I dressed him, the more he looked like the slouching fugitive on the marshes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- With the night comes a slouching figure through the tunnel-court to the outside of the iron gate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I asked next after Miss Halcombe, but I was answered in a slouching, sulky way, which left me no wiser than I was before. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Slouching at his side with his eyes upon the towing-path, Riderhood held his left hand open, with a certain slight drawing action towards himself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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