as in dragged
to move slowly
slouched towards the church as if going to his own funeral
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Recent Examples of slouched
Engage the core to help keep the lower spine curvature neutral and not rounded or slouched.
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Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 7 Oct. 2025
Bichette, the bat taken out of his hand, slouched back to the bench.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Wenyu’s scores slouched down the rankings.
—Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
Those featured a pointed toe and slouched calf-height shaft, contrasting with the structured knee-high approach of the Tory Burch style.
—Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slouched
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Sure enough, Hill took a short swing pass, collided with a would-be Georgetown tackler around the 10-yard line, and dragged three Eagles forward before falling on the pylon for a touchdown.—
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In the June incident, Ross broke the window of a car when the driver refused to exit the vehicle and then found himself being dragged at least 50 yards when the driver hit the gas.—
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One team member crawled inside and fired paintballs filled with vegetable oil, wildlife organization BEAR League told Fox News Digital on Thursday.—
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Scott’s almost-every-snap status has largely crawled under the radar this season.—
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Empty boxes were stacked along a side wall in the locker room as players shuffled in and out to pack up a season’s worth of shirts and jerseys and cleats and memorabilia.—
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First, the sophomore shuffled back into coverage after showing A-gap pressure to intercept a Bryce Underwood pass over the middle of the field, ending a key fourth-quarter drive.—
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But then the Broncos’ offensive woes crept back to the forefront.—
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Individual mistakes crept into a squad that was already low on confidence from the end of Erik ten Hag’s managerial reign.—
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The Open Book author has previously poked fun at the tuna gaffe.—
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Scott Adams, who kept cubicle denizens laughing for more than three decades with Dilbert, the bitingly funny comic strip that poked fun at the absurdity of corporate life, before racist remarks got him pink-slipped, died Tuesday.—
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“Slouched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slouched. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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