Crossword clues for slouching
slouching
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slouch \Slouch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slouched; p. pr. & vb. n. Slouching.]
To droop, as the head.
To walk in a clumsy, lazy manner. [Colloq.]
Slouching \Slouch"ing\, a. Hanging down at the side; limp; drooping; without firmness or shapeliness; moving in an ungainly manner.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of slouch English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "slouching".
The houses of the workpeople at Blarney are neat and trim, white and clean, and a repose to the eyes of beholders, sick of slouching thatch and bulging mud walls.
The noise seemed to please the men, who were slouching along heavily in their best clothes, and Patu left his wife, and running up to a farm servant whom he perceived behind a tree, took his gun and fired a shot himself, as frisky as a young colt.
Even the press row was accommodated by an assprtment of newspaper and radio people, slouching in their seats, quietly awaiting the recommencement of the proceedings with smiling interest.
Well, so when you have travelled for days and days over an Eastern desert without meeting the likeness of a human being, and then at last see an English shooting-jacket and his servant come listlessly slouching along from out of the forward horizon, you stare at the wide unproportion between this slender company and the boundless plains of sand through which they are keeping their way.
Now staggering, now slouching, now staring at her, wild-eyed, now in lines curving into a dark unseeable distance.
From where he sat he could see the potboy Gil slouching on the floor on the far side of the guards table.
ABOUT THE TIME Ashman and Joseph were sitting in the spring sunshine of Roundwood Park, Cunningham was slouching like a sleepy cat through the same sunshine in Battersea Park.
Thus, when Alfred Sartain alighted from a taxi outside the building, at precisely ten minutes of nine, he was covered by slouching, hidden watchers.
They were a sullen slouching crowd rudely clad, and they represented probably the poorest of the burghers, who now, as in the middle ages, suffer most in battle, since a long purse means a good horse.
Jimmy looked after him in wonder that turned to indignation, as he saw Theo lay a detaining hand on the ragged jacket of Carrots, who was slouching aimlessly along the sidewalk with his hands in his pockets, and, after a little talk with him, bring him back to the stand.
They were slouching on another one of the zebra couches, one of them wearing a Stunts Unlimited T-shirt and the other fatigue pants and eelskin cowboy boots.
He must have come down over the crown of the hill, with his long slouching stride, as if his legs had been half pulled away from his body by his heavy boots in the furrows when a ploughboy.
And visions of them, as he was accustomed to pass them in the lanes, slouching along with their straw bags, their hoes, and their shamefaced greetings, passed before him.
IV--LARGO E MESTO Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellarage of hell, The Wind-Fiend, the abominable - The Hangman Wind that tortures temper and light - Comes slouching, sullen and obscene, Hard on the skirts of the embittered night.
He was coming down the Rue Beaune, slouching along with head bent in his usual way.