slink

"I tried to slink away and he was reeling me back," Annie says.

As he slinks off, Royal says that the past six days have been the best of his life.

The GOP majority has turned over its constitutional prerogatives to Trump and Musk and is slinking away like a pack of beaten dogs.

Yet by the end of her meal, she had slunk down so low her head was almost level to the table.

Not that you would know it from the way he first slinks onscreen, silent and watchful.