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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sly, dastardly person |
| Synonyms: | boor, bounder, clown, creep, cur, dog*, heel, louse, lout, rake, rascal, rat, rotter, rounder, scoundrel, stinker, worm |
| Antonyms: | gentleman, helper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crawl |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move very slowly |
| Synonyms: | clamber, creep, drag, drag oneself along, go on all fours, go on belly, grovel, hang back, inch, lag, loiter along, lollygag, move at snail's pace, move on hands and knees, plod, poke, pull oneself along, scrabble, slide, slither, squirm, worm, wriggle, writhe |
| Main Entry: | creep |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | crawl along, usually on ground |
| Synonyms: | approach unnoticed, crawl on all fours, edge, glide, grovel, gumshoe, inch, insinuate, lurk, pussyfoot, scrabble, scramble, skulk, slink, slither, snake*, sneak, squirm, steal, tiptoe, worm, wriggle, writhe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cur |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rotten, lowly animate being |
| Synonyms: | black sheep, blackguard, bum, cad, coward, dog*, good-for-nothing, heel, hound, ne'er-do-well, rat, riffraff, scoundrel, scum*, skunk, snake*, stinker, toad, villain, worm, wretch, yellow dog |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | edge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat narrowly |
| Synonyms: | creep, ease, inch, infiltrate, nose out, sidle, slip by, slip past, squeeze by, squeeze past, steal, worm |
| Antonyms: | lose, wallop |
| Main Entry: | grub |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | larva |
| Synonyms: | caterpillar, centipede, entozoon, maggot, worm |
| Main Entry: | sneak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move stealthily |
| Synonyms: | ambush, case, cheat, cower, crawl, creep, deceive, delude, evade, glide, gumshoe, hide, lurk, mooch, move secretly, ooze, pad, pass, prowl, pussyfoot, secrete, shirk, sidle, skulk, slide, slink, slip, slither, sly, smuggle, snake, snook, spirit, steal, worm |
| Main Entry: | squirm |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wiggle, fidget |
| Synonyms: | agonize, flounder, shift, skew, squiggle, toss, twist, wind, worm, wriggle, writhe |
| Antonyms: | sit still |
| Main Entry: | wangle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | finagle |
| Synonyms: | contrive, engineer, extricate, fake, falsify, juggle, maneuver, manipulate, obtain, wiggle, worm, wriggle |
| Notes: | to wangle means to gain by trickery; to wrangle means to argue or debate something angrily |
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