slithering

English

Verb

slithering

1. present participle and gerund of slither

Noun

slithering (plural slitherings)

1. 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 […]

Translations

act

• Finnish: luikertelu

Anagrams

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