Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a slouching manner.

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  • adverb In a slouchy manner.

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  • adverb in a slouchy manner

Etymologies

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slouchy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • This is not a commitment to vote for Obama, and I'm still going to provide the service of observing events from my slouchily neutral posture, to which no vow currently binds me.

    In which I say who won last night's debate and almost abandon my cruel neutrality pose. Ann Althouse 2008

  • She read from Wild Boys, then played clarinet while Tilda Swinton who stepped out looking brilliantly, slouchily elegant in black and white read more.

    Patti Smith's Meltdown (featuring Alan Moore) K. A. Laity 2005

  • She read from Wild Boys, then played clarinet while Tilda Swinton who stepped out looking brilliantly, slouchily elegant in black and white read more.

    Archive 2005-07-01 K. A. Laity 2005

  • A moment later the town was in sight, and groups of flannel-shirted, dusty-booted, slouchily attired citizens were discernible coming out of buildings everywhere.

    Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

  • Craven came in, slouchily, his hair standing on end, his eyes peering through the thick-lensed glasses.

    Empire Clifford D. Simak 1946

  • She pointed to a tall, lanky, slouchily dressed man who was directing the lowering of a sail in one of the catboats.

    The Slipper Point Mystery 1921

  • Two small, slouchily built stacks of weather-stained hay occupied a fenced-off enclosure, beside which, with no attempt to protect them from the weather, stood a dish-wheeled hay rake, and a rusty mowing machine, its cutter-bar buried in weeds.

    The Gold Girl 1921

  • Even in the brilliant morning sunlight the vessel, soughing, creaking, groaning, as it moved slouchily over the waters impressed her as the shape of terror.

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

  • But, heigh-ho and alack-aday! the dirty-faced man and the red-nosed man and the man with the greasy hat passed slouchily on, a-munching and a-crunching of his apple.

    A Melody in Silver Keene Abbott 1908

  • He stood upon the rough plank platform, leaning on his rifle, with the game-bag and its burden of purloined explosive hanging slouchily beneath one arm, his coon-skin cap down well upon his eyes, those eyes, half closed, gazing at the newcomers with all the curiosity which they would have shown at sight of savages from some far foreign shore.

    In Old Kentucky Edward Marshall 1901

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