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Slouch   /slaʊtʃ/   Listen
Slouch

noun
1.
An incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions.
2.
A stooping carriage in standing and walking.
verb
(past & past part. slouched; pres. part. slouching)
1.
Assume a drooping posture or carriage.  Synonym: slump.
2.
Walk slovenly.



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"Slouch" Quotes from Famous Books



... men as Pindar saw when he pictured Jason, his forest hero. Life is a hearty and vigorous movement to them, not a drooping slouch. Summer is their season of preparation; winter, of the campaign; spring, of victory. All over the north of the State, whatever is not lake or river is forest. In summer, the Viewer, like a military engineer, marks out the region, and the spots of future attack. He views the woods; and wherever ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various

... most comical little pantomime, call my attention to her unusual bulk. So when she found Brandon, the only change necessary to make a man of her was to throw off the riding habit and pull on the jack-boots and slouch hat, both of which Brandon ...
— When Knighthood Was in Flower • Charles Major

... said this as if he had driven us to the scaffold to be hanged, and was fiercely glad that he'd got us there safely at last. We looked but saw nothing; then a light appeared ahead and seemed to come towards us; and presently we saw that it was a lantern held up by a man in a slouch hat, with a dark bushy beard, and a three-bushel bag around his shoulders. He held up his other hand, and said something to the driver in a tone that might have been used by the leader of a search party who had just found the ...
— Over the Sliprails • Henry Lawson

... hay-wagon and the necessity of waiting for him to speak first. So she only rattled the latch. He started up, a little bewildered from his sudden awakening, but seeing who had come, dashed off the old slouch hat, perched on the ...
— Mary Ware's Promised Land • Annie Fellows Johnston

... turning towards the speaker. The latter was a squarely built man, about forty years of age, with a face expressive of intense determination, which at the moment was partially hidden by a slouch hat pulled down over the forehead, and a pair of spectacles. He was clad in brown canvas, very much as was Ridge himself; but except for facings of blue on collar and sleeve be wore no distinctive mark of rank. For a few minutes the ...
— "Forward, March" - A Tale of the Spanish-American War • Kirk Munroe


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