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- adverb In a
slinky way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A strange combination of repulsion and intrigue attends Tonetta's style; although well-toned for a man of his vintage, the sight of a middle-aged man in a thong with tights over his face, gyrating slinkily and singing about rubbing his bone or the manifold qualities of a 41-inch bottom take some acclimatising to.
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There are enough car crashes, shoot-outs and explosions to keep the kids happy, but what really seems to inspire Burton, even more than DeVito's flamboyant villainy and a huge supporting cast of real and artificial penguins, is the slinkily ambiguous Catwoman, Batman's foe, flame and alter ego.
A Gotham Gothic 2008
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The best of this music jumps and flows with pronounced rhythmic vivacity, notably the first single, 'If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free', the slinkily jazzy 'Consider Me Gone', and the burstingly melodic 'Fortress Around Your Heart', which builds through a rather shapeless verse to its indelible chorus in the best tradition of the Police.
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They filed past very slinkily in very nice dresses, and the old man tugged at his beard and looked up and down and hesitated, and then he turned to his majordomo and said, "You know, I know exactly what to do, but bloody well don't know where to start!"
D-Day Dinner 1969
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The stars of the show, its Kermit and Miss Piggy, were the very fashionable, slinkily attired, stunningly hairstyled duo, Maxim and Mamma Alien, who yearned to be -- what else?
The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967
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But no matter how many innuendos the frontman, Adam Levine, slinkily mews, the group's songs still sound squeaky clean.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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No words are exchanged between them; they kiss as strangers, silently, and then Dominczyk saunters away, just as silently and slinkily.
Everything2 New Writeups Pandeism Fish 2010
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Rolling Stones - but no matter how many innuendos frontman Adam Levine slinkily mews, the group's songs still sound squeaky clean.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Isabel Fonsesca's slinkily assured debut novel shows a wry appreciation of the complexities of modern love.
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Isabel Fonsesca's slinkily assured debut novel shows a wry appreciation of the complexities of modern love.
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