slinking in English

verb
1
move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner.
the fox came slinking through the woods
verb

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1. 1 I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey.

2. 6 On scouting assignments, he developed a reputation for slinking around games, hiding out as if he were a CIA operative.

3. 24 She showed where Dot must watch across the ragged grass for when the fox came slinking through the bracken towards the hen-house.

4. Pair of drawings show contrast between smiling immigrants arriving from Western Europe labeled with "honest industry," "thrift," and "loyalty" and scowling, slinking immigrants arriving from Eastern Europe labeled with "Bolshevikism," "crazy theories," "anarchy," and "freak ideas."