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Definition of Slinked
1. slink [v] - See also: slink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slinked
Literary usage of Slinked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Booth Tarkington by Booth Tarkington (1918)
"up there, an' well—an' pretty soon he saw mamma an' me, papa, but he didn't think
we saw him, an' so he kind of slinked back ..."
2. Adam Bede by George Eliot (1893)
"... examining the floor-quarries ; while Lisbeth would ask him how he supposed
the coffin had been got ready that he had slinked off and left undone, ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"... examining the floor-quarries; while Lisbeth would ask him how he supposed the
coffin had been got ready that he had slinked off and left undone, ..."
4. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"Oo't away, oo't away; maun," says their Highland guide (who always made himself
interpreter also) " the maun means, gem'men, a slinked calf, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"Kaiser Franz, the thin grey man that slinked along the Bastei at Vienna like some
cloistered student without observance, knew better of what stuff German ..."
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