slithering
English
editVerb
editslithering
- present participle and gerund of slither
Noun
editslithering (plural slitherings)
- The act of one who slithers.
- 2003, Sarah Kay, Terence Cave, Malcolm Bowie, A Short History of French Literature, page 263:
- 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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