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 Locksley has not posted a winning record in Big Ten play through six seasons, and his team slunk to 1-8 last season. Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • 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
  • For weeks, the New York Ripper case has lurked on the periphery of the series — a boogeyman that the show kept hinting was someone in Dexter’s life.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • The pass was a perfect one-timed through ball for Chawinga, who dribbled through five defenders and snuck a shot past Naeher.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The pair has snuck onto the school’s rooftop to skip class and smoke weed — a typical activity for them.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • After a disastrous trip to Mexico where Irina appeared repulsed by pretty much everything Zack did, the couple split and Zack crawled back to Bliss.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Just as Ted Lasso began life as a promo for NBC’s English Premier League coverage, Chad Powers crawled out of a gag on Eli’s Places, Eli Manning’s post-retirement ESPN+ program, in which the former Giants quarterback hides under prosthetics to pose as an aspiring Penn State walk-on.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Slunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slunk. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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