as in slug
a lazy person
is no slouch when it comes to cooking
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Recent Examples of slouch
Andrew Gebhart,
PC Magazine,
30 May 2026
South Florida was no slouch this year, also picking up four new Bib Gourmands and four new Recommendeds, for a total of 75 restaurants in the region with Michelin accolades.
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Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
28 May 2026
Wayne Winegarden,
Oc Register,
5 Apr. 2026
Even factors as simple as lying in bed or slouching over can affect the nasal cycle.
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Adam Taylor,
CNN Money,
8 Mar. 2026
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Noun
The Fitbit Air is no slouch on this front, either.
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Andrew Gebhart,
PC Magazine,
30 May 2026
South Florida was no slouch this year, also picking up four new Bib Gourmands and four new Recommendeds, for a total of 75 restaurants in the region with Michelin accolades.
—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
28 May 2026
Verb
Making matters worse, and despite the DOGE rhetoric, the federal government continues to slouch toward insolvency.
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Wayne Winegarden,
Oc Register,
5 Apr. 2026
Even factors as simple as lying in bed or slouching over can affect the nasal cycle.
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Adam Taylor,
CNN Money,
8 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slouch
Noun
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The backpacker's body fails him, but not before the slug transforms his mind.
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Coffee grounds are also often used to deter slugs and snails, reduce weeds without chemicals, and even repel neighborhood strays.
Verb
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Especially someone that can drag his man around a little bit, take attention away from Anthony (Edwards).
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Ennis enters as the betting favorite, but Zayas owns size and reach edges and has vowed to drag the fight into the deep, physical championship rounds.
Noun
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The suspects accused of plotting an attack on the UFC fight at the White House allegedly planned to deploy drones armed with explosives around the event, forcing the crowd to evacuate before they would be targeted by sniper fire, court records said.
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The threat of drone attacks forced several Saudi, Emirati and Iraqi facilities to shut in during the war, too.
Verb
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Seltz’s system crawls hundreds of millions of pages a day, and returns results in under 200 milliseconds.
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The animal eventually crawled under a dock.
Noun
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Designed with a plunging neckline, modest bum coverage, and compressive fabric with UPF 50 sun protection, the elegant silhouette offers rich-girl vacation energy that could easily double as a bodysuit with shorts.
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For those caught unaware, the flies will also happily lay eggs in convenient openings such as the nose, mouth, ears, eyes, and even the bum, if available.
Verb
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As our conversation extends into the hour mark, her hood creeps upward along the side of her face most visible to those around us.
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For my microgeneration, the disillusionment crept in with the savage failure of the Iraq War.
Noun
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If CosRx can convince people to willingly slather snail mucin on their faces, trusting the brand with hair care is a pretty easy next step.
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Some of our go-to eye serums are marked down for Prime Day, too, including the COSRX Snail Mucin Peptide Under Eye Cream, which features snail mucin, peptides, and niacinamide to even out discoloration and soothe puffy areas.
Verb
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The company has since shuffled several leaders, including naming a new human resources chief and the company’s first chief digital officer.
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The assistant shuffled to one side and the scene reset.
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“Slouch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slouch. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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