Sneak (away), as in shame

Usage examples of slink.

Imeyne shouted, and Maisry came slinking out from the brewhouse door, holding her ear.

The scene would be rehearsed several times before Sultan, tired of mummery and eager for actualities, slunk yawling into the bush, while Baal Burra, whimpering in the dusk, waddled home to be caged.

The dog slunk into a corner and hid beneath a manger and lay there growling softly, but I could tell that the beast was not overly brave, or else it would never have lived to be so gray.

After Lavadie had slunk off, Bernabe slouched out to his pickup, tuned the radio to mariachi music coming from KKCV in Chamisaville, and steered onto the highway, turning south.

A number of scrawny mongrel dogs slunk about the place, nuzzling for scraps, occasionally bickering noisily among themselves.

Chewbacca slinks back outside the starship as Han helps the still slightly crazed Montross aboard the craft.

Or else Providence sends the pleuro, and the big strong cattle slink away by themselves and stand under trees glaring savagely till death comes.

Lobo checked the lengthened shadows and spotted the shabby creature slinking up the curving stone stairway.

By this time, of course, the imperialists will know who and what we are, from their slinking spies and cowardly reconnaissance aircraft.

Tupolev had been slinking about the Barents Sea like a fool while Marko had been heading the other way.

There was the serpent, meek as before the days of sin, and the leopard slinking to get among the legs of men, and the lion came trundling along in utter flabbiness, raising not his head.

The riders, spooked and uncertain, leave her for the slinking carrion-eaters.

I spent quite a bit of time hiding or slinking around to stay out of sight.

I watched him as he went slinking off toward the east, pausing now and again to look back over his shoulder at me.

He began slinking his hand toward her wrist and lower forearm, until she could no longer see her hand anymore.