What does slithering mean?
Slithering means present participle and gerund of slither.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of slither.
As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.
Here, Valéry is of the devil's party, and boasts of it throughout a long catalogue of serpentine slitherings and insinuations. To be a snake, the protagonist announces, is to be a thinker, to live by one's wits[…]
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Slithering means present participle and gerund of slither.
Common synonyms include slippery, slipping, slippy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.
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