slunk

variants also slinked
past tense of slink
as in lurked
to move about in a sly or secret manner like a thief slinking about in the middle of the night

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Recent Examples of slunk The team slunk out of Wrigley Field two games later facing the abyss. Andy McCullough, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slunk
Verb
  • The terrain was steep and mountainous, the forests were thick, and threats from buffalo and leopards lurked in the wilderness.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber snuck in just before the screening, as did Running Man filmmaker and frequent BFI-dweller Edgar Wright.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Investigators believe that Zemfira met the other girl on social media, and the two snuck out of their homes that Friday night for an adventure.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This time, of the five live roaches, the least shy sashayed across the floor in front of the cookline and crawled under a dining area table.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Bamboo Penny’s 5270 W 116th Place, Leawood A live cockroach crawled on the wall next to the rice cooker at this Leawood Thai restaurant.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Slunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slunk. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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