Another word for slouch
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Verb
To take on or move with an awkward, slovenly posture
- To fall or sink heavily; collapse:
- To droop, as in sitting or standing; slouch.
- To decline suddenly; fall off:
- To move, stand, or recline in an indolent or relaxed manner.
- To hang or droop laxly:
- To permit to hang or droop laxly:
To hang limply, loosely, and carelessly
- To become limp or flaccid; droop:
- To feel or exhibit the effects of fatigue or exhaustion; weaken markedly:
- To cause to droop or lose freshness:
- To sink, droop, or settle from pressure or weight.
- To lose vigor, firmness, or resilience:
- To decline, as in value or price:
- To cut off (a part), especially from a tree or shrub:
- To cut off a part or parts from; trim:
- To eliminate or excise as superfluous:
- To move, stand, or recline in an indolent or relaxed manner.
- To hang or droop laxly:
- To permit to hang or droop laxly:
- To fall or lie down heavily and noisily:
- To move about loosely or limply:
- To fail utterly:
- To bend or hang downward:
- To bend or sag gradually:
- To sag in dejection or exhaustion:
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Noun
A self-indulgent person who spends time avoiding work or other useful activity
- A round bullet larger than buckshot.
- A shot of liquor.
- An amount of liquid, especially liquor, that is swallowed in one gulp; a swig.
- A lazy person.
- Offering no initiative for change, especially in politics.
- An idle or lazy person.
- A lazy person.
- One who wastes, especially one who wastes money; a profligate.
- An idler or a loafer.
- A slothful person; an idler.
- Lazy.
- One inclined to stay in bed out of laziness.
- Having no value, use, merit, or virtue.
- One that is worthless.
- An idle, irresponsible person.
- One who is habitually idle:
- A lazy or idle person; a loafer.
- a person who wastes time and does no work; lazy person
- a gear placed between two others to transfer motion from one to the other without changing their direction or speed
- a pulley riding loosely on a shaft, pressing against a belt to guide it or take up the slack
- A person of little worth or usefulness.
- Having little worth; useless.
- A male bee, especially a honeybee, that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. Its only function is to mate with the queen bee.
- An idle person who lives off others; a loafer.
- A person who does tedious or menial work; a drudge:
- A tramp; a vagrant.
- A lazy or shiftless person, especially one who seeks to live solely by the support of others.
- An incompetent, insignificant, or obnoxious person:
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Another word for slouch
Noun
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- A slothful person; an idler.
- Lazy.
- Lacking qualities necessary for effective conduct or action:
- Inadequate for or unsuited to a particular purpose or application:
- Not functioning properly in the body:
- Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
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Verb
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- To fall or sink heavily; collapse:
- To droop, as in sitting or standing; slouch.
- To decline suddenly; fall off:
- To move or act in a lazy, relaxed way; loll:
- To pass time idly:
- To pass (time) in a lazy, relaxed, or idle way:
- To bend forward and down from the waist or the middle of the back:
- To stand or walk, especially habitually, with the head and upper back bent forward.
- To lower or debase oneself:
- To bend or hang downward:
- To bend or sag gradually:
- To sag in dejection or exhaustion:
Idioms:
no-slouch
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