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slinked

VERB

creep by

Synonyms

WEAK

coast cower glide glissade go stealthily gumshoe lurk meander pass quietly prowl pussyfoot shirk sidle skitter skulk slick slide slip snake sneak steal undulate

VERB

creep by

Synonyms

STRONGEST

lurk meander prowl sidle skitter skulk slither sneak undulate

STRONG

coast cower glide glissade mooch pussyfoot shirk slick slide slip snake steal

WEAK

go stealthily gumshoe pass quietly

Example Sentences

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To win this acclaim James Ramsay MacDonald and leading Labor orators sweated last week and swinked.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two such I saw, what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

Two such I saw, what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.

From L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas by Milton, John

For three hundred years my folk have swinked and sweated, day in and day out, to keep the wine on the lord's table and the harness on the lord's back.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Two such I saw, what time the labored ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John