| sleepyheaded | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepy |
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| sleet | (noun) partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow) | - |
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| (verb) precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow | - |
| sleety | (adjective) consisting of or of the nature of frozen or partially frozen rain | - |
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| sleeve | (noun) the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm | Synonyms: arm |
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| (noun) small case into which an object fits | - |
| sleeved | (adjective) made with sleeves or sleeves especially as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| sleeveless | (adjective) having no sleeves | - |
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| (adjective) unproductive of success | Synonyms: bootless, fruitless, futile, vain |
| sleigh | (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sled, sledge |
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| (verb) ride (on) a sled | Synonyms: sled |
| sleight | (noun) adroitness in using the hands | Synonyms: dexterity, manual dexterity |
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| slender | (adjective) very narrow | Synonyms: thin |
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| (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slim |
| (adjective) having little width in proportion to the length or height | - |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slight, slim, svelte |
| slenderise | (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderize |
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| slenderize | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slim, slim down, thin |
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| (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderise |
| slenderly | (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slightly, slimly |
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| (adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagerly, meagrely, sparingly |
| slenderness | (noun) the quality of being slight or inadequate | - |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slightness, slimness |
| (noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: tenuity, thinness |
| sleuth | (noun) a detective who follows a trail | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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| (verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly | Synonyms: snoop, spy, stag |
| sleuthhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: bloodhound |
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| (noun) a detective who follows a trail | Synonyms: sleuth |
| sleuthing | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detecting, detection, detective work |
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| slew | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slide, slip, slue |
| slews | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, stacks, tons, wads |
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| slice | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: fade, slicing |
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| (noun) a spatula for spreading paint or ink | - |
| (noun) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) a thin flat piece cut off of some object | - |
| (noun) a share of something | Synonyms: piece |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, gash, slash |
| (verb) hit a ball so that it causes a backspin | - |
| (verb) cut into slices | Synonyms: slice up |
| (verb) make a clean cut through | Synonyms: slit |
| (verb) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction | - |
| sliced | (adjective) (used of meat) cut into pieces for serving | - |
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| (adjective) prepared by cutting | Synonyms: chopped, shredded |
| slicer | (noun) knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese | - |
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| (noun) a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade | - |
| (noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers) | - |
| slicing | (noun) the act of cutting into slices | - |
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| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: fade, slice |
| slick | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek |
| (adjective) having only superficial plausibility | Synonyms: glib, pat |
| (adjective) made slick by e.g. ice or grease | - |
| (adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: facile, neat |
| (noun) a trowel used to make a surface slick | - |
| (noun) a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water | - |
| (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slickness, slip, slipperiness |
| (noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: glossy, slick magazine |
| (verb) give a smooth and glossy appearance | Synonyms: sleek down, slick down |
| (verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: sleek |
| slicked | (adjective) (of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance | Synonyms: plastered |
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| slicker | (noun) a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof | Synonyms: oilskin |
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| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, trickster |
| (noun) a person with good manners and stylish clothing | - |
| slickly | (adverb) with superficial plausibility | Synonyms: glibly |
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| slickness | (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slip, slipperiness |
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| (noun) a kind of fluent easy superficiality | Synonyms: glibness |
| (noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, trickery |
| slide | (noun) the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | Synonyms: coast, glide |
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| (noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: chute, slideway, sloping trough |
| (noun) a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector | Synonyms: lantern slide |
| (noun) a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study | Synonyms: microscope slide |
| (noun) plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide | Synonyms: playground slide, sliding board |
| (noun) (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale | Synonyms: swoop |
| (noun) (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc. | - |
| (verb) to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly | Synonyms: slither |
| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slew, slip, slue |
| (verb) move smoothly along a surface | - |
| slider | (noun) a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown | - |
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| (noun) freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets | Synonyms: Pseudemys scripta, yellow-bellied terrapin |
| (noun) someone who races the luge | Synonyms: luger |
| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slipper |
| slideway | (noun) sloping channel through which things can descend | Synonyms: chute, slide, sloping trough |
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| sliding | (adjective) being a smooth continuous motion | - |
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| slight | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: little |
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| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slim, svelte |
| (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: rebuff |
| (verb) pay no attention to, disrespect | Synonyms: cold-shoulder |
| slighting | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory |
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| slightingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: disparagingly |
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| slightly | (adverb) to a small degree or extent | Synonyms: more or less, somewhat |
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| (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slenderly, slimly |
| slightness | (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: delicacy |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slenderness, slimness |
| (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, puniness, triviality |
| slim | (adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slender |
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| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slight, svelte |
| (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim down, thin |
| slime | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, sludge |
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| (verb) cover or stain with slime | - |
| slimed | (adjective) covered with or resembling slime | Synonyms: slimy |
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| sliminess | (noun) a property resembling or being covered with slime | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, vileness, wickedness |
| slimly | (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slenderly, slightly |
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| slimness | (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slenderness, slightness |
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| (noun) a small margin | Synonyms: narrow margin, narrowness |
| slimy | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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| (adjective) covered with or resembling slime | Synonyms: slimed |
| sling | (noun) bandage to support an injured forearm; consisting of a wide triangular piece of cloth hanging from around the neck | Synonyms: scarf bandage, triangular bandage |
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| (noun) a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones | Synonyms: catapult, slingshot |
| (noun) a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released | - |
| (noun) a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel | Synonyms: slingback |
| (noun) a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice | - |
| (verb) hurl as if with a sling | Synonyms: catapult |
| (verb) hold or carry in a sling | - |
| (verb) move with a sling | - |
| (verb) hang loosely or freely; let swing | - |
| slingback | (noun) a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel | Synonyms: sling |
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| slinger | (noun) a person who uses a sling to throw something | - |
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| slinging | (noun) throwing with a wide motion (as if with a sling) | - |
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| slingshot | (noun) a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones | Synonyms: catapult, sling |
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| slink | (verb) walk stealthily | - |
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| slip | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air | Synonyms: sideslip |
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| (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, solecism |
| (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: eluding, elusion |
| (noun) an unexpected slide | Synonyms: sideslip, skid |
| (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: miscue, parapraxis, slip-up |
| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, shimmy, teddy |
| (noun) bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow | Synonyms: case, pillow slip, pillowcase |
| (noun) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material | Synonyms: strip |
| (noun) a small sheet of paper | Synonyms: slip of paper |
| (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slickness, slipperiness |
| (noun) an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall | Synonyms: trip |
| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, moorage, mooring |
| (noun) a young and slender person | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: cutting |
| (noun) potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics | - |
| (verb) fall to a lower standard | Synonyms: drop away, drop off, fall away |
| (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, splay |
| (verb) insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly | - |
| (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: err, mistake |
| (verb) pass out of one's memory | Synonyms: slip one's mind |
| (verb) move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: skid, slew, slide, slue |
| (verb) move stealthily | Synonyms: steal |
| (verb) move easily | - |
| (verb) move smoothly and easily | - |
| (verb) cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion | - |
| (verb) pass on stealthily | Synonyms: sneak |
| slipcover | (noun) a removable fitted cloth covering for upholstered furniture | - |
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| slipknot | (noun) a knot at the end of a cord or rope that can slip along the cord or rope around which it is made | - |
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| slipover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: pullover |
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| slippage | (noun) failing to hold or slipping out of place | - |
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| (noun) a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping | - |
| (noun) decline from a standard level of performance or achievement | - |
| slipper | (noun) low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors | Synonyms: carpet slipper |
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| (noun) a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction | Synonyms: skidder, slider |
| slippered | (adjective) shod with slippers | - |
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| slipperiness | (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slickness, slip |
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| (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, trickiness |
| slipperwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: calceolaria |
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| slippery | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippy |
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| (adjective) not to be trusted | Synonyms: tricky |
| slipping | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slithering |
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| slippy | (adjective) causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide | Synonyms: slippery |
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| slipshod | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, sloppy |
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| slipstick | (noun) analog computer consisting of a handheld instrument used for rapid calculations; have been replaced by pocket calculators | Synonyms: slide rule |
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| slipstream | (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, wash |
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| slipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, ways |
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| slit | (noun) a long narrow opening | - |
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| (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, snatch, twat |
| (noun) a narrow fissure | - |
| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, prick, scratch |
| (verb) cut a slit into | - |
| (verb) make a clean cut through | Synonyms: slice |
| slither | (verb) to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly | Synonyms: slide |
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| slithering | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slipping |
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| slithery | (adjective) having a slippery surface or quality | - |
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| sliver | (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: paring, shaving |
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| (noun) a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal | Synonyms: splinter |
| (verb) break up into splinters or slivers | Synonyms: splinter |
| (verb) form into slivers | - |
| (verb) divide into slivers or splinters | Synonyms: splinter |
| slivery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: splintery |
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| slivovitz | (noun) a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans | - |
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| slob | (noun) a coarse obnoxious person | Synonyms: pig, sloven, slovenly person |
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| slobber | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool |
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| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slaver |
| slobberer | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, drooler |
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| sloe | (noun) small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush | - |
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| (noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: blackthorn, Prunus spinosa |
| (noun) wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh | Synonyms: Alleghany plum, Allegheny plum, Prunus alleghaniensis |
| slog | (verb) strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat | Synonyms: slug, swig |
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| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, tramp, trudge |
| (verb) work doggedly or persistently | Synonyms: keep one's nose to the grindstone, keep one's shoulder to the wheel, peg away, plug away |
| slogan | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, shibboleth |
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| sloganeer | (noun) someone who coins and uses slogans to promote a cause | - |
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| (verb) coin new slogans | - |
| sloganeering | (noun) persuasion by means of empty slogans | - |
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| slogger | (noun) a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches | Synonyms: slugger |
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| (noun) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours | Synonyms: plodder |
| (noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: plodder, trudger |
| sloop | (noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow | - |
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| slop | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, mush, treacle |
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| (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slops, swill |
| (noun) (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink | - |
| (noun) deep soft mud in water or slush | Synonyms: mire |
| (noun) (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand | - |
| (verb) feed pigs | Synonyms: swill |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: spill, splatter |
| (verb) ladle clumsily | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh, squelch, squish |
| slope | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: gradient |
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| (noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: incline, side |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, pitch |
| sloped | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloping |
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| sloping | (adjective) having a slanting form or direction | - |
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| (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped |
| slopingly | (adverb) with a slant | Synonyms: slantingly |
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| slopped | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| sloppily | (adverb) in a sloppy manner | - |
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| sloppiness | (noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: carelessness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, soupiness |
| (noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: slovenliness, unkemptness |
| (noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: muddiness, wateriness |
| sloppy | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod |
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| (adjective) excessively or abnormally emotional | Synonyms: overemotional |
| (adjective) not fitting closely; hanging loosely | Synonyms: baggy, loose-fitting |
| (adjective) lacking neatness or order | - |
| (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
| (adjective) wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material | - |
| slops | (noun) cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain) | - |
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| (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, swill |
| slopseller | (noun) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slop-seller |
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| slopshop | (noun) a store that sells cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slopseller's shop |
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| slosh | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh around, slush, slush around |
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| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, splash, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slush, splash, splosh |
| sloshed | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| slot | (noun) a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail) | - |
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| (noun) a slot machine that is used for gambling | Synonyms: one-armed bandit |
| (noun) (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board | Synonyms: expansion slot |
| (noun) a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable | - |
| (noun) the trail of an animal (especially a deer) | - |
| (noun) a position in a hierarchy or organization | - |
| (noun) a time assigned on a schedule or agenda | Synonyms: time slot |
| (verb) assign a time slot | - |
| sloth | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: acedia, laziness |
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| (noun) any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits | Synonyms: tree sloth |
| (noun) a disinclination to work or exert yourself | Synonyms: slothfulness |
| slothful | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, work-shy |
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| slothfulness | (noun) a disinclination to work or exert yourself | Synonyms: sloth |
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