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{
"slack":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent",
": characterized by slowness, sluggishness, or lack of energy",
": moderate in some quality",
": moderately warm",
": blowing or flowing at low speed",
": not tight or taut",
": lacking in usual or normal firmness and steadiness : weak",
": wanting in activity : dull",
": lacking in completeness, finish, or perfection",
": to be or become slack",
": to shirk or evade work or duty",
": to be slack or negligent in performing or doing",
": lessen , moderate",
": to release tension on : loosen",
": to cause to abate",
": slake sense 3",
": cessation in movement or flow",
": a part of something that hangs loose without strain",
": trousers especially for casual wear",
": a dull season or period",
": a part that is available but not used",
": a portion (as of labor or resources) that is required but lacking",
": additional leeway or relief from pressure",
": a pass between hills",
": the finest screenings of coal produced at a mine unusable as fuel unless cleaned",
": careless sense 1 , negligent",
": not energetic : slow",
": not tight or firm",
": not busy or active",
": to make or become looser, slower, or less energetic",
": to avoid work",
": a part (as of a rope or sail) that hangs loose without strain",
": dressy pants",
": a portion (as of work or resources) that is required but lacking",
": additional relief from pressure"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slak",
"\u02c8slak"
],
"synonyms":[
"careless",
"derelict",
"disregardful",
"lax",
"lazy",
"neglectful",
"neglecting",
"negligent",
"remiss"
],
"antonyms":[
"ease",
"loosen",
"relax",
"slacken"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"His broken arm hung slack at his side.",
"The rope suddenly went slack .",
"He accused the government of slack supervision of nuclear technology.",
"Verb",
"They need to stop slacking and get down to work.",
"the skipper ordered the crew to slack off the sheets on the mainsail"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun (1)",
"1756, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun (3)",
"1729, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-182540"
},
"slacken":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make less active : slow up",
": to make slack (as by lessening tension or firmness)",
": to become slack or slow or negligent : slow down",
": to become less active : slack",
": to make slower or less energetic",
": to make less tight or firm"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sla-k\u0259n",
"\u02c8sla-k\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"ease",
"loosen",
"relax",
"slack"
],
"antonyms":[
"strain",
"stretch",
"tense",
"tension",
"tighten"
],
"examples":[
"Sales show no sign of slackening .",
"As he began to relax, his grip on the steering wheel slackened .",
"The captain ordered us to slacken the sails.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Winds slacken somewhat Friday night with colder lows in the upper 30s to low 40s. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Winds should begin to slacken overnight as the high pressure begins to weaken east of the Cascades. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Although the older variant is clinging on for dear life in a few pockets, its grasp will likely continue to slacken and slip under the weight of its craftier cousin. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Heavy rain should slacken in the area by late morning as a warm front pushes the system north into British Columbia. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Norway\u2019s power needs are usually largely met by a network of hydroelectric plants, but output can slacken when reservoirs run low. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Tomorrow night: Skies are mainly clear, and winds should slacken compared to the day. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Dec. 2021",
"As winds also slacken , pretty much the whole area will dip to or below freezing tonight, with lows ranging from the mid-20s to low 30s. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Once the front moves through, the winds should slacken , but travel may be difficult at times with stronger gusts and heavy rain. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174658"
},
"slacker":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a person who shirks work or obligation",
": one who evades military service in time of war",
": a person and especially a young person who is perceived to be disaffected, apathetic, cynical, or lacking ambition"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sla-k\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"shirker"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The people I work with are a bunch of slackers .",
"there will be no slackers tolerated in this group\u2014anyone who doesn't do their share will get booted out",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The rest of the crew are day drinkers, the kind that fueled this place for decades, back in the era when a couple of martinis at noon marked you as a red-blooded American, not some slacker looking to nap away the afternoon in a comfortable chair. \u2014 Tim Carman, Washington Post , 23 May 2022",
"But the skin that surrounds them\u2014which is loose to begin with to allow for proper movement, and can grow ever slacker thanks to wear and tear and gravity\u2014is hard to ignore come summer, when temperatures and hemlines are up, up, up. \u2014 Jancee Dunn, Vogue , 18 May 2022",
"The movie tells the story of Alison (Katherine Heigl), an up-and-coming entertainment reporter, and the charming slacker Ben, who have an encounter and then, in short order, a baby. \u2014 Megan Garber, The Atlantic , 12 May 2022",
"Still, Harris saw a sympathetic undertone to her character, often saying Estelle fumed out frustration at her bumbling mate and scheming slacker of a son. \u2014 Jennifer Peltz, chicagotribune.com , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Still, Harris saw a sympathetic undertone to her character, often saying Estelle fumed out frustration at her bumbling mate and scheming slacker of a son. \u2014 Jennifer Peltz, ajc , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Still, Harris saw a sympathetic undertone to her character, often saying Estelle fumed out frustration at her bumbling mate and scheming slacker of a son. \u2014 NBC News , 3 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s being a misfit and a slacker and a stoner and a slam poet and the lead trombonist for an indie-ska band called Stick It to the Man for Now but Ultimately Start a Family and Get a Great Job at a Health-Care Corporation. \u2014 Alex Baia, The New Yorker , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The idea that Gen Xers, my relentlessly scrutinized slacker generation, would come into their own amid Cold War 2.0 is morbidly amusing. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1898, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-200338"
},
"slag":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": the dross or scoria of a metal",
": a lewd or promiscuous woman",
": to criticize harshly",
": the waste left after the melting of ores and the separation of the metal from them"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slag",
"\u02c8slag"
],
"synonyms":[
"blame",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"dis",
"diss",
"dispraise",
"fault",
"knock",
"pan",
"reprehend"
],
"antonyms":[
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"praise"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"London reviewers slagged off the new play for being another kitchen-sink drama."
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun (1)",
"1552, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun (2)",
"circa 1958, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1971, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-032453"
},
"slam":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to shut forcibly and noisily : bang",
": to set or slap down violently or noisily",
": to propel, thrust, or produce by or as if by striking hard",
": to strike or beat hard : knock",
": to criticize harshly",
": to make a banging noise",
": to function (as in moving) with emphatic and usually noisy vigor",
": to utter verbal abuse or harsh criticism",
": a noisy violent closing",
": a banging noise",
": one made by the slam of a door",
": a heavy blow or impact",
": a poetry competition performed before judges",
": a cutting or violent criticism",
": slammer",
": grand slam",
": little slam",
": to shut with noisy force : bang",
": to strike or beat hard",
": to put or place with force",
": to criticize harshly",
": a severe blow",
": the noise made by a violent act of closing : bang"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slam",
"\u02c8slam"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"circa 1691, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 3",
"Noun (1)",
"1672, in the meaning defined at sense 2",
"Noun (2)",
"1660, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-184207"
},
"slam-bang":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": unduly loud or violent",
": having fast-paced often nonstop action",
": vigorously enthusiastic"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slam-\u02c8ba\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaring",
"blasting",
"booming",
"clamorous",
"clangorous",
"deafening",
"earsplitting",
"loud",
"piercing",
"plangent",
"resounding",
"ringing",
"roaring",
"sonorous",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"antonyms":[
"gentle",
"low",
"soft"
],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1823, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194330"
},
"slant":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"adverb or adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to take a diagonal course, direction, or path",
": to turn or incline from a right line or a level : slope",
": to give an oblique or sloping direction to",
": to interpret or present in line with a special interest : angle",
": to maliciously or dishonestly distort or falsify",
": a slanting direction, line, or plane : slope",
": something that slants",
": slash sense 4",
": a football running play in which the ballcarrier runs obliquely toward the line of scrimmage",
": a peculiar or personal point of view, attitude, or opinion",
": a slanting view : glance",
": to turn or incline diagonally from a straight line or level : slope",
": a direction, line, or surface that is not level or straight up and down : slope",
": not level or straight up and down",
": a culture medium solidified obliquely in a tube so as to increase the surface area",
"\u2014 compare stab sense 2a"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slant",
"\u02c8slant",
"\u02c8slant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bend",
"color",
"cook",
"distort",
"falsify",
"fudge",
"garble",
"misinterpret",
"misrelate",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"pervert",
"twist",
"warp"
],
"antonyms":[
"cant",
"diagonal",
"grade",
"gradient",
"inclination",
"incline",
"lean",
"pitch",
"rake",
"slope",
"upgrade"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The sunlight slanted down through the leaves and branches of the trees.",
"She slanted her hat a little to the right.",
"They deliberately slanted the story to make themselves look good.",
"Noun",
"The computer keyboard is positioned at a slant so that typing is more comfortable for the wrists.",
"He sliced the carrots on a slant .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Diagonal wings slant down from the sides of the passenger compartment to the sides of the cargo bed. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 5 Jan. 2022",
"In grade school, kids would make fun of the authentic meals her mother packed lovingly for her, or use their fingers to slant their eyelids. \u2014 Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Mar. 2021",
"With the house now slanted on its base and not repairable, Patterson told WYFF News 4 his family does not have insurance to cover the damage from the storm. \u2014 Fox News , 26 Apr. 2020",
"The idea to use a marble came from a scene in the pilot, in which Holmes uses a marble to determine a building\u2019s floor is slanted . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 30 Dec. 2019",
"Eun Kyung Park, the shape's inventor, gives the classic black manicure an edge \u2014 literally \u2014 with her signature long and slanted tips. \u2014 Nicola Dall'asen, Allure , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Though this year's Oscar winners have slanted toward the , the night's performances have been refreshingly unpredictable. \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 10 Feb. 2020",
"As Ryan Grim, A\u00edda Ch\u00e1vez, and Akela Lacy write at The Intercept, other questions had equally slanted presuppositions. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, TheWeek , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Huffman was the first parent sentenced in the scandal that exposed the lengths some parents will go to to get their children into elite schools and reinforced suspicions that the college admissions process is slanted toward the rich. \u2014 Jocelyn Gecker, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Oct. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Just don't cut on a slant \u2014 clean up-and-down slices look best. Step 7. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2022",
"Glover and Shade were defensive-minded coaches while Nix, the former Auburn quarterback, obviously had an offensive slant to his philosophy. \u2014 al , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Frequently the stories have a confessional, almost therapeutic slant . \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 21 Dec. 2021",
"With a writing team whose members may not always be privy to cultural norms, Watson was always able to chime in and provide feedback that would give a more accurate authentic slant to the language and communication used between parents and children. \u2014 Essence , 25 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s no ideological slant to the notion of sending voters money in an election year. \u2014 Dominic Pino, National Review , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Through it all, there's a backbeat of criticism from progressives who fear the court's slant to the right since the Trump Administration. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 9 Feb. 2022",
"If the Will linebacker takes a step forward towards the run action, Tagovailoa pulls the ball down and possibly throws a quick slant to the split end receiver (Parker), or the route behind him, possibly a streaking speedster like Fuller. \u2014 Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com , 1 Sep. 2021",
"While last year's season was controversial for its 'VIP' slant that saw celebrity stars flout quarantine rules and only one person of colour being cast (who was also the former advisor to Donald Trump), this year's season looks more promising. \u2014 Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1644, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"1655, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174157"
},
"slanted":{
"type":"verb",
"definitions":[
"to take a diagonal course, direction, or path",
"to turn or incline from a right line or a level slope",
"to give an oblique or sloping direction to",
"to interpret or present in line with a special interest angle",
"to maliciously or dishonestly distort or falsify",
"a slanting direction, line, or plane slope",
"something that slants",
"slash sense 4",
"a football running play in which the ballcarrier runs obliquely toward the line of scrimmage",
"a peculiar or personal point of view, attitude, or opinion",
"a slanting view glance",
"to turn or incline diagonally from a straight line or level slope",
"a direction, line, or surface that is not level or straight up and down slope",
"not level or straight up and down",
"a culture medium solidified obliquely in a tube so as to increase the surface area",
"\u2014 compare stab sense 2a"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8slant",
"synonyms":[
"bend",
"color",
"cook",
"distort",
"falsify",
"fudge",
"garble",
"misinterpret",
"misrelate",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"pervert",
"twist",
"warp"
],
"antonyms":[
"cant",
"diagonal",
"grade",
"gradient",
"inclination",
"incline",
"lean",
"pitch",
"rake",
"slope",
"upgrade"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The sunlight slanted down through the leaves and branches of the trees.",
"She slanted her hat a little to the right.",
"They deliberately slanted the story to make themselves look good.",
"Noun",
"The computer keyboard is positioned at a slant so that typing is more comfortable for the wrists.",
"He sliced the carrots on a slant .",
"Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
"Diagonal wings slant down from the sides of the passenger compartment to the sides of the cargo bed. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 5 Jan. 2022",
"In grade school, kids would make fun of the authentic meals her mother packed lovingly for her, or use their fingers to slant their eyelids. \u2014 Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Mar. 2021",
"With the house now slanted on its base and not repairable, Patterson told WYFF News 4 his family does not have insurance to cover the damage from the storm. \u2014 Fox News , 26 Apr. 2020",
"The idea to use a marble came from a scene in the pilot, in which Holmes uses a marble to determine a building\u2019s floor is slanted . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 30 Dec. 2019",
"Eun Kyung Park, the shape's inventor, gives the classic black manicure an edge \u2014 literally \u2014 with her signature long and slanted tips. \u2014 Nicola Dall'asen, Allure , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Though this year's Oscar winners have slanted toward the , the night's performances have been refreshingly unpredictable. \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 10 Feb. 2020",
"As Ryan Grim, A\u00edda Ch\u00e1vez, and Akela Lacy write at The Intercept, other questions had equally slanted presuppositions. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, TheWeek , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Huffman was the first parent sentenced in the scandal that exposed the lengths some parents will go to to get their children into elite schools and reinforced suspicions that the college admissions process is slanted toward the rich. \u2014 Jocelyn Gecker, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Oct. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"Just don't cut on a slant \u2014 clean up-and-down slices look best. Step 7. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2022",
"Glover and Shade were defensive-minded coaches while Nix, the former Auburn quarterback, obviously had an offensive slant to his philosophy. \u2014 al , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Frequently the stories have a confessional, almost therapeutic slant . \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 21 Dec. 2021",
"With a writing team whose members may not always be privy to cultural norms, Watson was always able to chime in and provide feedback that would give a more accurate authentic slant to the language and communication used between parents and children. \u2014 Essence , 25 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s no ideological slant to the notion of sending voters money in an election year. \u2014 Dominic Pino, National Review , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Through it all, there's a backbeat of criticism from progressives who fear the court's slant to the right since the Trump Administration. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 9 Feb. 2022",
"If the Will linebacker takes a step forward towards the run action, Tagovailoa pulls the ball down and possibly throws a quick slant to the split end receiver (Parker), or the route behind him, possibly a streaking speedster like Fuller. \u2014 Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com , 1 Sep. 2021",
"While last year's season was controversial for its 'VIP' slant that saw celebrity stars flout quarantine rules and only one person of colour being cast (who was also the former advisor to Donald Trump), this year's season looks more promising. \u2014 Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1644, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"1655, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"slanting":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"adverb or adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to take a diagonal course, direction, or path",
": to turn or incline from a right line or a level : slope",
": to give an oblique or sloping direction to",
": to interpret or present in line with a special interest : angle",
": to maliciously or dishonestly distort or falsify",
": a slanting direction, line, or plane : slope",
": something that slants",
": slash sense 4",
": a football running play in which the ballcarrier runs obliquely toward the line of scrimmage",
": a peculiar or personal point of view, attitude, or opinion",
": a slanting view : glance",
": to turn or incline diagonally from a straight line or level : slope",
": a direction, line, or surface that is not level or straight up and down : slope",
": not level or straight up and down",
": a culture medium solidified obliquely in a tube so as to increase the surface area",
"\u2014 compare stab sense 2a"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slant",
"\u02c8slant",
"\u02c8slant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bend",
"color",
"cook",
"distort",
"falsify",
"fudge",
"garble",
"misinterpret",
"misrelate",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"pervert",
"twist",
"warp"
],
"antonyms":[
"cant",
"diagonal",
"grade",
"gradient",
"inclination",
"incline",
"lean",
"pitch",
"rake",
"slope",
"upgrade"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The sunlight slanted down through the leaves and branches of the trees.",
"She slanted her hat a little to the right.",
"They deliberately slanted the story to make themselves look good.",
"Noun",
"The computer keyboard is positioned at a slant so that typing is more comfortable for the wrists.",
"He sliced the carrots on a slant .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Diagonal wings slant down from the sides of the passenger compartment to the sides of the cargo bed. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 5 Jan. 2022",
"In grade school, kids would make fun of the authentic meals her mother packed lovingly for her, or use their fingers to slant their eyelids. \u2014 Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Mar. 2021",
"With the house now slanted on its base and not repairable, Patterson told WYFF News 4 his family does not have insurance to cover the damage from the storm. \u2014 Fox News , 26 Apr. 2020",
"The idea to use a marble came from a scene in the pilot, in which Holmes uses a marble to determine a building\u2019s floor is slanted . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 30 Dec. 2019",
"Eun Kyung Park, the shape's inventor, gives the classic black manicure an edge \u2014 literally \u2014 with her signature long and slanted tips. \u2014 Nicola Dall'asen, Allure , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Though this year's Oscar winners have slanted toward the , the night's performances have been refreshingly unpredictable. \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 10 Feb. 2020",
"As Ryan Grim, A\u00edda Ch\u00e1vez, and Akela Lacy write at The Intercept, other questions had equally slanted presuppositions. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, TheWeek , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Huffman was the first parent sentenced in the scandal that exposed the lengths some parents will go to to get their children into elite schools and reinforced suspicions that the college admissions process is slanted toward the rich. \u2014 Jocelyn Gecker, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Oct. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Just don't cut on a slant \u2014 clean up-and-down slices look best. Step 7. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2022",
"Glover and Shade were defensive-minded coaches while Nix, the former Auburn quarterback, obviously had an offensive slant to his philosophy. \u2014 al , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Frequently the stories have a confessional, almost therapeutic slant . \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 21 Dec. 2021",
"With a writing team whose members may not always be privy to cultural norms, Watson was always able to chime in and provide feedback that would give a more accurate authentic slant to the language and communication used between parents and children. \u2014 Essence , 25 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s no ideological slant to the notion of sending voters money in an election year. \u2014 Dominic Pino, National Review , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Through it all, there's a backbeat of criticism from progressives who fear the court's slant to the right since the Trump Administration. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 9 Feb. 2022",
"If the Will linebacker takes a step forward towards the run action, Tagovailoa pulls the ball down and possibly throws a quick slant to the split end receiver (Parker), or the route behind him, possibly a streaking speedster like Fuller. \u2014 Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com , 1 Sep. 2021",
"While last year's season was controversial for its 'VIP' slant that saw celebrity stars flout quarantine rules and only one person of colour being cast (who was also the former advisor to Donald Trump), this year's season looks more promising. \u2014 Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1644, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"1655, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-193627"
},
"slantwise":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"adverb or adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to take a diagonal course, direction, or path",
": to turn or incline from a right line or a level : slope",
": to give an oblique or sloping direction to",
": to interpret or present in line with a special interest : angle",
": to maliciously or dishonestly distort or falsify",
": a slanting direction, line, or plane : slope",
": something that slants",
": slash sense 4",
": a football running play in which the ballcarrier runs obliquely toward the line of scrimmage",
": a peculiar or personal point of view, attitude, or opinion",
": a slanting view : glance",
": to turn or incline diagonally from a straight line or level : slope",
": a direction, line, or surface that is not level or straight up and down : slope",
": not level or straight up and down",
": a culture medium solidified obliquely in a tube so as to increase the surface area",
"\u2014 compare stab sense 2a"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slant",
"\u02c8slant",
"\u02c8slant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bend",
"color",
"cook",
"distort",
"falsify",
"fudge",
"garble",
"misinterpret",
"misrelate",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"pervert",
"twist",
"warp"
],
"antonyms":[
"cant",
"diagonal",
"grade",
"gradient",
"inclination",
"incline",
"lean",
"pitch",
"rake",
"slope",
"upgrade"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The sunlight slanted down through the leaves and branches of the trees.",
"She slanted her hat a little to the right.",
"They deliberately slanted the story to make themselves look good.",
"Noun",
"The computer keyboard is positioned at a slant so that typing is more comfortable for the wrists.",
"He sliced the carrots on a slant .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Diagonal wings slant down from the sides of the passenger compartment to the sides of the cargo bed. \u2014 Peter Valdes-dapena, CNN , 5 Jan. 2022",
"In grade school, kids would make fun of the authentic meals her mother packed lovingly for her, or use their fingers to slant their eyelids. \u2014 Liz Hardaway, San Antonio Express-News , 21 Mar. 2021",
"With the house now slanted on its base and not repairable, Patterson told WYFF News 4 his family does not have insurance to cover the damage from the storm. \u2014 Fox News , 26 Apr. 2020",
"The idea to use a marble came from a scene in the pilot, in which Holmes uses a marble to determine a building\u2019s floor is slanted . \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 30 Dec. 2019",
"Eun Kyung Park, the shape's inventor, gives the classic black manicure an edge \u2014 literally \u2014 with her signature long and slanted tips. \u2014 Nicola Dall'asen, Allure , 21 Feb. 2020",
"Though this year's Oscar winners have slanted toward the , the night's performances have been refreshingly unpredictable. \u2014 Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR , 10 Feb. 2020",
"As Ryan Grim, A\u00edda Ch\u00e1vez, and Akela Lacy write at The Intercept, other questions had equally slanted presuppositions. \u2014 Ryan Cooper, TheWeek , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Huffman was the first parent sentenced in the scandal that exposed the lengths some parents will go to to get their children into elite schools and reinforced suspicions that the college admissions process is slanted toward the rich. \u2014 Jocelyn Gecker, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Oct. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Just don't cut on a slant \u2014 clean up-and-down slices look best. Step 7. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 10 June 2022",
"Glover and Shade were defensive-minded coaches while Nix, the former Auburn quarterback, obviously had an offensive slant to his philosophy. \u2014 al , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Frequently the stories have a confessional, almost therapeutic slant . \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 21 Dec. 2021",
"With a writing team whose members may not always be privy to cultural norms, Watson was always able to chime in and provide feedback that would give a more accurate authentic slant to the language and communication used between parents and children. \u2014 Essence , 25 Feb. 2022",
"There\u2019s no ideological slant to the notion of sending voters money in an election year. \u2014 Dominic Pino, National Review , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Through it all, there's a backbeat of criticism from progressives who fear the court's slant to the right since the Trump Administration. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 9 Feb. 2022",
"If the Will linebacker takes a step forward towards the run action, Tagovailoa pulls the ball down and possibly throws a quick slant to the split end receiver (Parker), or the route behind him, possibly a streaking speedster like Fuller. \u2014 Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com , 1 Sep. 2021",
"While last year's season was controversial for its 'VIP' slant that saw celebrity stars flout quarantine rules and only one person of colour being cast (who was also the former advisor to Donald Trump), this year's season looks more promising. \u2014 Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1644, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"1655, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-174858"
},
"slap down":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to prohibit or restrain usually abruptly and with censure from acting in a specified way : squelch",
": to put an abrupt stop to : suppress"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"silence",
"snuff (out)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"subdue",
"suppress"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"public protests against the government were always promptly slapped down"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195029"
},
"slash":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to lash out, cut, or thrash about with or as if with an edged blade",
": to cut with or as if with rough sweeping strokes",
": cane , lash",
": to cut slits in (something, such as a garment) so as to reveal a color beneath",
": to criticize cuttingly",
": to reduce sharply : cut",
": the act of slashing",
": a long cut or stroke made by or as if by slashing",
": an ornamental slit in a garment",
": an open tract in a forest strewn with debris (as from logging)",
": the debris in such a tract",
": a mark / used typically to denote \"or\" (as in and/or ), \"and or\" (as in straggler/deserter ), or \"per\" (as in feet/second )",
": a genre of fan fiction which features a romantic pairing of two usually male fictional characters who are not romantically connected in the original work of fiction",
": a low swampy area often overgrown with brush",
": to cut or strike at with sweeping blows",
": to reduce sharply",
": an act of cutting or striking with sweeping strokes",
": a long cut or slit made with sweeping blows",
": a mark / used to mean \"or\" (as in and/or ), \"and or\" (as in bottles/cans ), or \"per\" (as in miles/hour )"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slash",
"\u02c8slash"
],
"synonyms":[
"cut",
"gash",
"incise",
"rip",
"shear",
"slice",
"slit"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1548, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense",
"Noun (1)",
"1576, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"1652, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191508"
},
"slash-and-burn":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": characterized or developed by felling and burning trees to clear land especially for temporary agriculture",
": extremely ruthless and unsparing"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slash-\u0259n(d)-\u02c8b\u0259rn"
],
"synonyms":[
"affectless",
"callous",
"case-hardened",
"cold-blooded",
"compassionless",
"desensitized",
"hard",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"indurate",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"insensitive",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"obdurate",
"pachydermatous",
"pitiless",
"remorseless",
"ruthless",
"soulless",
"stony",
"stoney",
"stonyhearted",
"take-no-prisoners",
"thick-skinned",
"uncharitable",
"unfeeling",
"unmerciful",
"unsparing",
"unsympathetic"
],
"antonyms":[
"charitable",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"merciful",
"sensitive",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1939, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173457"
},
"slate":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb ()"
],
"definitions":[
": a piece of construction material (such as laminated rock) prepared as a shingle for roofing and siding",
": a dense fine-grained metamorphic rock produced by the compression of various sediments (such as clay or shale) so as to develop a characteristic cleavage",
": a tablet (as of slate) used for writing on",
": a written or unwritten record (as of deeds)",
": a list of candidates for nomination or election",
": a dark purplish gray",
": any of various grays similar in color to common roofing slates",
": to cover (something) with slate or a slatelike substance",
": to designate (someone or something) for a specified purpose or action occurring especially at a fixed time",
": to thrash or pummel severely",
": to criticize or censure severely",
": a fine-grained usually bluish gray rock that splits into thin layers or plates and is used mostly for roofing and blackboards",
": a framed piece of slate used to write on"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0101t",
"\u02c8sl\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"Some school blackboards are made of slate .",
"The house has a slate roof."
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (2)",
"1825, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195412"
},
"slaty":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of, containing, or characteristic of slate",
": gray like slate"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0101-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"argentine",
"gray",
"grey",
"grayish",
"leaden",
"pewter",
"silver",
"silvery",
"slate",
"steely"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"slaty stones in the riverbed"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1529, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-212823"
},
"slavishly":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude",
": basely or abjectly servile",
": despicable , low",
": oppressive , tyrannical",
": copying obsequiously or without originality : imitative",
": following, copying, or accepting something or someone without questioning"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0101-vish",
"sometimes",
"\u02c8sl\u0101-vish"
],
"synonyms":[
"apish",
"canned",
"emulative",
"epigonic",
"epigonous",
"formulaic",
"imitative",
"mimetic",
"mimic",
"unoriginal"
],
"antonyms":[
"archetypal",
"archetypical",
"original"
],
"examples":[
"a politician and his slavish followers",
"He has been criticized for his slavish devotion to the rules.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Well, that Rudolph Giuliani is a distant memory to many, obscured by his conspiracy mongering and slavish devotion to Donald Trump. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 8 June 2022",
"But what\u2019s interesting is that in a party whose devotion to Trump has been nothing short of slavish , DeSantis has been the only figure willing to step forward to challenge Trump\u2019s positions. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Our slavish adherence to the concept of engineering art extends far beneath the surface of the T.33's body. \u2014 Alistair Charlton, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"That his friend was Princess Lee Radziwill, a fixture of the high society to which Capote remained slavish , was naturally a major component. \u2014 Mark Peikert, Town & Country , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Trump, after all, was not supported these past few years by only his most slavish sycophants. \u2014 Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker , 22 Apr. 2021",
"Nothing but slavish allegiance to Donald Trump's Big Lie about the 2020 election and a desperate desire to prevent citizens from voting as a way to prevent Republicans from losing elections. \u2014 Star Tribune , 13 May 2021",
"The most extreme Trump supporters will love the idea, but most independents and even some Republicans will conclude that the Republican Party no longer has any policies other than the slavish worshiping of one man. \u2014 WSJ , 9 May 2021",
"Amazingly, many of the most fervent supporters are young people who have seemingly forsaken youthful rebellion for slavish conformity. \u2014 WSJ , 18 Apr. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213352"
},
"slay":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to kill violently, wantonly, or in great numbers",
": to strike down : kill",
": to delight or amuse immensely",
": to do something or perform exceptionally well or impressively : to be exceptionally impressive",
": kill entry 1 sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0101",
"\u02c8sl\u0101"
],
"synonyms":[
"carry off",
"claim",
"croak",
"destroy",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"fell",
"kill",
"take"
],
"antonyms":[
"animate"
],
"examples":[
"The knight slew the dragon.",
"millions have been slain worldwide by this dreadful disease",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There may never be a better chance for MLS to slay the Liga MX dragon. \u2014 Seth Vertelney, USA TODAY , 4 May 2022",
"Yas, queen, hunty, slay the house down, mama, boots. \u2014 Josh Rivera, USA TODAY , 1 June 2022",
"Investors have lately been tortured by a fear that the Fed cannot slay inflation without triggering a recession. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 16 May 2022",
"And speaking of families, Rihanna, the soon to be mother, continues to slay in all of her stellar maternity looks. \u2014 Greg Emmanuel, Essence , 18 Mar. 2022",
"If Powell and the Fed slay the inflation dragon, the battle will likely claim casualties, but turn out to be a positive for stocks down the road. \u2014 John Dobosz, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The Maple Leafs trying to slay their Black-and-Gold tormentors would be great theater. \u2014 Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Marjorie and Steve Harvey are another great example of partners that slay together, stay together. \u2014 Greg Emmanuel, Essence , 22 Apr. 2022",
"But with three seasons in the rearview, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) has learned to speak up, make friends, kiss boys, and, of course, slay many a monster. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 19 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English slen , from Old English sl\u0113an to strike, slay; akin to Old High German slahan to strike, Middle Irish slachta stricken",
"first_known_use":[
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190420"
},
"sleaze":{
"type":"noun",
"definitions":[
"sleazy quality, appearance, or behavior",
"sleazy material",
"a sleazy person"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8sl\u0113z",
"synonyms":[
"sleazebag",
"sleazeball",
"slime",
"slimeball"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"some sleaze will try to make a buck off of this tragic murder",
"at least her newest boyfriend isn't the kind of sleaze she usually dates",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Tumblr fashion is often remembered as an indie sleaze haze full of messy hair, dark eyeliner, and ripped tights. \u2014 Frances Sol\u00e1-santiago, refinery29.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"Each episode is jam-packed with deep-cut tracks from the 1980s Sunset Strip heyday, as well as some choice cuts from the modern sleaze metal acts Gunn can\u2019t get enough of. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Yet, at the very least, the roiling sleaze scandal has tarnished what should have been Johnson\u2019s moment, crystallizing criticism about his flexible commitment to the rule of law. \u2014 Washington Post , 10 Nov. 2021",
"Members of his own party had wanted to defuse sleaze allegations before local elections on Thursday. \u2014 Bradford Betz, Fox News , 1 May 2022",
"Neil Parish, a member of Parliament since 2010, announced his decision Saturday after pressure from members of his own party who sought to defuse sleaze allegations before Britain holds its local elections on May 5. \u2014 Danica Kirka, USA TODAY , 1 May 2022",
"Neil Parish, a member of Parliament since 2010, announced his decision Saturday after pressure from members of his own party who sought to defuse sleaze allegations before Britain holds its local elections on May 5. \u2014 Danica Kirka, USA TODAY , 1 May 2022",
"Neil Parish, a member of Parliament since 2010, announced his decision Saturday after pressure from members of his own party who sought to defuse sleaze allegations before Britain holds its local elections on May 5. \u2014 Danica Kirka, ajc , 30 Apr. 2022",
"Due a position at the front of the line are the two men who first blew the lid off the Biden sleaze and endured a smearing for the ages. \u2014 Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ , 7 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"back-formation from sleazy ",
"first_known_use":[
"1954, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"sleazebag":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a sleazy person"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0113z-\u02ccbag",
"also",
"also"
],
"synonyms":[
"sleaze",
"sleazeball",
"slime",
"slimeball"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She was involved with some sleazebag ."
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1981, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173116"
},
"sleazy":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": lacking firmness of texture : flimsy",
": carelessly made of inferior materials : shoddy",
": marked by low character or quality",
": squalid , dilapidated"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0113-z\u0113",
"also"
],
"synonyms":[
"skanky",
"sluttish",
"slutty",
"trampy"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a dancer in a sleazy outfit",
"a sleazy lothario who is always on the make",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Criminally underrated \u201890s domestic thriller with Liotta chewing up scenery as the sleazy cop hording in on Russell and Stowe\u2019s happy household. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 26 May 2022",
"Democrats impeached Donald Trump twice, once for a sleazy phone call, and once for a demonstration by his supporters that turned into a riot. \u2014 WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"The actor showed up in a red leather blazer and white lace slip dress embroidered with black beadwork and fringe, all of which was punctuated by a pair of huge sleazy -chic aviator sunglasses. \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 17 May 2022",
"For a while there, NFTs were going strong, with Bored Ape Yacht Club (pictures of sleazy humanoid monkeys) leading the way. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 13 May 2022",
"The dancer fights off understudies, an overbearing mother, a sleazy director, and her own demons in pursuit of perfection on and off the stage. \u2014 Andrew Walsh, EW.com , 5 May 2022",
"John Malkovich has a memorable supporting role as a sleazy hotel manager. \u2014 Brent Lang, Variety , 13 Jan. 2022",
"The annual gala celebrating the sleazy relationship between Beltway power brokers and reporters is back\u2014and the discourse surrounding it is dumber than ever. \u2014 Jason Linkins, The New Republic , 29 Apr. 2022",
"And this is the guy who did kind of sleazy stuff to stop him. \u2014 Leila Atassi, cleveland , 19 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"origin unknown",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1645, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205445"
},
"sleep":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": the natural, easily reversible periodic state of many living things that is marked by the absence of wakefulness and by the loss of consciousness of one's surroundings, is accompanied by a typical body posture (such as lying down with the eyes closed), the occurrence of dreaming, and changes in brain activity and physiological functioning, is made up of cycles of non-REM sleep and REM sleep , and is usually considered essential to the restoration and recovery of vital bodily and mental functions",
": a state resembling sleep: such as",
": a state of torpid inactivity",
": death",
": trance , coma",
": the closing of leaves or petals especially at night",
": a state marked by a diminution of feeling followed by tingling",
": the state of an animal during hibernation",
": a period spent sleeping",
": night",
": a day's journey",
": crusty matter present in the corner of an eye upon awakening",
": to rest in a state of sleep",
": to be in a state (as of quiescence or death) resembling sleep",
": to have sexual relations",
"\u2014 see also sleep together",
": to be slumbering in",
": to get rid of or spend in or by sleep",
": to provide sleeping accommodations for",
": to rest with eyes closed in a temporary state of inactivity : be or lie in a state of sleep",
": a natural temporary state of rest during which an individual becomes physically inactive and unaware of the surrounding environment and many bodily functions (as breathing) slow",
": an inactive state (as hibernation) like true sleep",
": death sense 3",
": the natural, easily reversible, periodic state of many living things that is marked by the absence of wakefulness and by the loss of consciousness of one's surroundings, is accompanied by a typical body posture (as lying down with the eyes closed), the occurrence of dreaming, and changes in brain activity and physiological functioning, is made up of cycles of non-REM sleep and REM sleep , and is usually considered essential to the restoration and recovery of vital bodily and mental functions",
": a state resembling sleep: as",
": death sense 1",
": a state marked by a diminution of feeling followed by tingling",
": to rest in a state of sleep"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0113p",
"\u02c8sl\u0113p",
"\u02c8sl\u0113p"
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"napping",
"repose",
"rest",
"resting",
"shut-eye",
"slumber",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"z's",
"zs"
],
"antonyms":[
"catnap",
"doze",
"nap",
"rest",
"slumber",
"snooze"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"After all, he has been known to burn the candle at both ends, to get precious little sleep when wrestling with how best to solve the problem at hand. \u2014 Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"Kassy Salazar had tried to get some sleep , even after learning that her cousin, Eva Mireles, had been one of the teachers murdered at Robb Elementary School. \u2014 Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 May 2022",
"One-off houseguests also get a restful night's sleep on it. \u2014 Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR , 24 May 2022",
"Being grateful can even get you a better night's sleep . \u2014 David G. Allan, CNN , 19 May 2022",
"Eating nutritious food and getting enough sleep are also crucial for self-care. \u2014 Caroline Castrillon, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Tanaka enjoyed eating chocolate and drinking soda, and credited her longevity to her family, faith, and getting enough sleep , NPR reports. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Not getting enough sleep takes a serious toll on performance. \u2014 Jill Duffy, PCMAG , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Needless to say, my new plush bedding is giving me more reasons to try and get to bed earlier and get more sleep this year. \u2014 Vogue , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To make matters worse, sleep often fails to cure the fatigue. \u2014 Erin Prater, Fortune , 11 June 2022",
"But the Collective Retreats glamping site, which opened in 2018, can accommodate about 70 glamorous campers per night, who sleep over in upscale private tents or lodgings. \u2014 New York Times , 11 June 2022",
"With a baby, sleep (whenever possible) will be the greatest gift of all. \u2014 Tiffany Leigh, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
"They were sent instead to the treatment center for the extremely malnourished where rooms are full, extra beds have been put out and yet some people must sleep on the floor. \u2014 Omar Faruk And Cara Anna, Anchorage Daily News , 8 June 2022",
"Lucy can sleep up to seven across a VIP cabin, a guest cabin and a full-beam owner\u2019s suite that comes complete with its own lounge. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 7 June 2022",
"The World Athletics Championships Oregon22 comes to Hayward Field July 15-24, bringing thousands of track and field fans who will need places to eat, sleep and shop. \u2014 Jayati Ramakrishnan, oregonlive , 5 June 2022",
"Themes are established: the promise of death, and sleep deprivation, the latter of which comes up a lot. \u2014 Chris Willman, Variety , 5 June 2022",
"This is idle music, meant to insulate an active mind\u2014to help the listener focus, sleep , and live better. \u2014 Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker , 2 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-175003"
},
"sleepless":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": not able to sleep",
": affording no sleep",
": unceasingly active or operative",
": not able to sleep : insomniac"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0113p-l\u0259s",
"\u02c8sl\u0113-pl\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"awake",
"insomniac",
"wakeful",
"wide-awake"
],
"antonyms":[
"asleep",
"dormant",
"dozing",
"napping",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"unawakened"
],
"examples":[
"He lay sleepless in bed.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"There were many sleepless nights, Cecilia, now 48, recalled. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 4 June 2022",
"From the daily work grind to navigating parenthood, including unpleasant diaper changing and attempting every trick in the book to calm a crying baby, a new dad has many sleepless nights ahead of him. \u2014 Editors Of Men's Health, Men's Health , 24 May 2022",
"Those sleepless nights do a number on Dad's skin, and with the great power of being a dad comes the great responsibility to take care of himself. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 15 May 2022",
"As a new mom, Joy Woodson expected a lot of sleepless nights, to worry every time her baby wouldn\u2019t stop crying and for her heart to leap at her newborn\u2019s slightest smile. \u2014 Lautaro Grinspan, ajc , 13 May 2022",
"For many Conservative MPs, that is causing sleepless nights. \u2014 Luke Mcgee, CNN , 4 May 2022",
"In terms of finance, interest rates are a prime factor and as transactions are normally in United States Dollars, that should be giving investors and airlines some sleepless nights. \u2014 David Yu, Forbes , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Sarah Pinborough knows that sleepless nights can be scary. \u2014 Calie Schepp, EW.com , 21 Apr. 2022",
"In the lead up to Paul and Dawn's New York meeting, Dawn spent sleepless nights worrying something unexpected would prevent her meeting Paul. \u2014 Francesca Street, CNN , 24 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213140"
},
"slender":{
"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"spare in frame or flesh",
"gracefully slight",
"small or narrow in circumference or width in proportion to length or height",
"limited or inadequate in amount or scope meager",
"gracefully thin",
"narrow for its height or length",
"very little"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8slen-d\u0259r",
"synonyms":[
"fine",
"hairline",
"narrow",
"needlelike",
"paper-thin",
"skinny",
"slim",
"slim-jim",
"thin",
"ultrathin"
],
"antonyms":[
"broad",
"fat",
"wide"
],
"examples":[
"She has a slender figure.",
"a flower with a slender stem",
"an animal with a long, slender snout",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The dinosaur also had less body armor, and its limbs were more slender than others of the same species. \u2014 Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Ski jumpers tend to be tall and slender , taking advantage of their height to have longer skis and lighter weight to help in the battle against gravity. \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 27 Jan. 2022",
"When the next act came out, the first Beatle to take the stage was a slender young man with a passing resemblance to James Dean. \u2014 The New Yorker , 27 Mar. 2022",
"In contrast, Biden's 2022 budget last spring proposed a 16% increase for domestic programs and less than 2% more for defense \u2014 numbers that were doomed from the start thanks to Democrats' slender congressional majorities. \u2014 Alan Fram, ajc , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Videos showed the worms slithering around one another in serpentine patterns while white light from fluorescent proteins indicating neuronal activity flickered on and off along the length of their slender bodies. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 6 Dec. 2021",
"But there\u2019s enough left for archaeologists to tell that in its heyday, the boat would have been a relatively slender craft\u20147 meters long and about 1.5 meters wide\u2014well-suited to navigating the rivers and canals of ancient Sumer. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Its aesthetics are as crisp as its acoustics, with a three-part white-enamel dial set inside a 39mm platinum case with slender black numerals, thermally blued steel hands and a classic seconds subdial at 6 o\u2019clock. \u2014 Michael Clerizo, WSJ , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Super- slender skyscrapers, also known as pencil towers, became standout features of the Hong Kong skyline in the 1970s. \u2014 Lydia Armstrong, CNN , 6 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sclendre, slendre , from Anglo-French esclendre ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-162459"
},
"slice":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to cut with or as if with a knife",
": to stir or spread with a slice",
": to hit (a ball) so that a slice results",
": interpret , construe",
": to slice something",
": to move with a cutting action",
": a thin flat piece cut from something",
": a wedge-shaped piece (as of pie or cake)",
": a spatula for spreading paint or ink",
": a serving knife with wedge-shaped blade",
": a flight of a ball that deviates from a straight course in the direction of the dominant hand of the player propelling it",
": a ball following such a course \u2014 compare hook",
": portion , share",
": segment , sample",
": to cut with or as if with a knife",
": to cut into thin flat pieces",
": a thin flat piece cut from something"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u012bs",
"\u02c8sl\u012bs"
],
"synonyms":[
"sliver",
"splinter"
],
"antonyms":[
"cross section",
"sample",
"sampler",
"sampling",
"selection"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Holding a knife parallel to the board, slice the loin almost entirely in half, but not quite through. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"Working one by one, slice the hearts of palm lengthwise through the middle without cutting all the way through, so that the two parts are still just barely connected. \u2014 Audrey Bruno, SELF , 11 June 2022",
"Thinly slice the pork tenderloins across the grain and divide among the four plates. \u2014 Michael A. Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"Juice of half a lemon; slice the other half into wedges. \u2014 Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"To make the salad, slice the tomatoes into thick rounds and arrange them on a serving platter. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 27 May 2022",
"For even less waste, in your next asparagus stir fry, slice those tough ends of the asparagus thin and add them to the pan first, along with any alliums in the recipe. \u2014 Mehreen Karim, Bon App\u00e9tit , 27 May 2022",
"First, slice the shallots evenly, as thinner slices will brown before thicker slices are able to crisp. \u2014 New York Times , 23 May 2022",
"Peel the eggs, then slice them crosswise into thick rounds. \u2014 Andy Baraghani, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Amid a sea of slice joints that sold big, floppy New York-style pies, Mangieri obsessively made pizza the Old World way, inspired by his trip to Naples a decade before. \u2014 Tori Latham, Robb Report , 16 June 2022",
"Nothing tastes like summer more than a crisp, juicy, refreshing slice of watermelon. \u2014 Erica Sweeney, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Laffite's Cove on Galveston Island Named after French pirate Jean Lafitte (the difference in spelling is due to a clerical error that stuck), this slice of Galveston Island feels like a tropical paradise. \u2014 Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure , 15 June 2022",
"The act of baking is soothing both to the giver and the receiver, to the busy baker and to the person taking a big bite of a fluffy slice of sponge. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
"But as cryptocurrency markets crumble beneath an unstable global economy and a series of embarrassing episodes, the sector could benefit from a nice slice of humble pie. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 14 June 2022",
"Using a very sharp knife, slice tomatoes latitudinally into \u00bd-inch rounds. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
"Then use your knife to make an upward slice , 1\u00bd to 2 inches long, at about a 30-degree angle. \u2014 Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens , 13 June 2022",
"Long before the Texas Hill Country became famous for its many wineries, peaches were the agricultural gem of this stunning slice of the state. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 8 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1551, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"1613, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-203250"
},
"slick":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": having a smooth surface : slippery",
": having surface plausibility or appeal : glossy",
": based on stereotype : trite",
": characterized by subtlety or nimble wit : clever",
": wily",
": deft , skillful",
": extremely good : first-rate",
": sleek sense 1",
": to make sleek or smooth",
": spruce",
": something that is smooth or slippery",
": a smooth patch of water covered with a film of oil",
": a film of oil",
": an automobile tire made without a tread for maximum traction (as in drag racing)",
": an implement for producing a smooth or slick surface",
": a shrewd untrustworthy person",
": a popular magazine printed on coated stock and intended to appeal to sophisticated readers",
": a military helicopter without armaments that is used to transport troops or light cargo",
": in a smooth or clever manner",
": to make sleek or smooth",
": having a smooth surface : slippery",
": tricky sense 2",
": having skill and cleverness"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slik",
"\u02c8slik"
],
"synonyms":[
"greased",
"greasy",
"lubricated",
"oiled",
"slicked",
"slippery",
"slippy",
"slithery"
],
"antonyms":[
"grease",
"lubricate",
"oil",
"wax"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Butler, Warren and Clinton counties will see quick periods of snowfall Sunday that could result in slick roadways and low visibility for drivers. \u2014 Kaitlin Lewis, The Enquirer , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Motorists are advised to stay home due to slick roadways. \u2014 David Wickert, ajc , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Rain on top of snow could create slick roadways and complicate the Friday morning commute, O\u2019Brien said. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 13 Jan. 2022",
"For the second time in a week, snow hit the D.C. region early Friday, forcing area schools and the federal government to close and leaving slick roadways and sidewalks. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Jan. 2022",
"With slick roadways still possible, the Virginia Department of Transportation said drivers should avoid unnecessary travel overnight and on Wednesday morning. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Travelers and commuters should prepare for delays caused by slick roadways and ponding water, forecasters said. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Dec. 2021",
"Fury credits lead trainer SugarHill Steward with infusing his slick style with an aggressive Kronk Gym gear. \u2014 Anthony Stitt, Forbes , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Middlebrooks notes the former simply helps pitchers get a better grip on what's a pretty slick baseball and can actually protect batters from getting plunked, while the latter has been found to dramatically increase spin rate. \u2014 Tim O'donnell, The Week , 15 June 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The terrain varied from rough limestone-shale fields to swampy singletrack to slick red sandstone. \u2014 Patty Hodapp, Outside Online , 28 May 2022",
"The wig application took about 40 minutes, Ballard says, while Biel's hair was completely flattened with GafQuat, a strong hold pomade used to slick hair back. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 17 May 2022",
"The best part: The crampon-like aluminum bars stick to slick rock like Velcro. \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 17 Apr. 2015",
"And fastening them to slick hides requires massive pins that may harm the animals. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Then, Raleigh would slick down and paint over Owen\u2019s bushy eyebrows and glue the prosthesis on with silicone adhesive. \u2014 Dan Reilly, Vulture , 21 Oct. 2021",
"For those rocking shorter hair, pomades are an excellent styling product that can shape and slick down hair with ease. \u2014 Sarah Han, Allure , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Better to slick it with oil before cooking to crisp it up, then brush with a flavorful glaze. \u2014 Beth Dooley Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune , 16 June 2021",
"Le Mindu styled this lace wig atop Booster's head, using hair gel and sugar spray to slick it just so. \u2014 Allure Editors, Allure , 15 July 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Drivers faced challenges as rain fell before and during the race, making the track slick and wet. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 June 2022",
"After Shesterkin denied Arthur Kaliyev in the sixth round, Fox roofed a slick backhand that stuck in the net to win it. \u2014 Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times , 25 Jan. 2022",
"As for the rest of her face, cheeks were kept soft with washes of nude pink and peach, while lips were enhanced with a slick of warm matte pink, usually L'Oreal Colour Riche Lipstick in Fairest Nude. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Balls used in Japan have a slightly tacky surface, so no need for mudding, nor for pitchers to use resin to kill the slick . \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 May 2022",
"In addition to some makeup essentials, such as filling in her brows, applying mascara, and a slick of lip gloss, Boru always tries to get henna done just before Eid. \u2014 Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com , 1 May 2022",
"This whole project has been a fun way to go about my pantry, finding value where others only see a murky slick destined for the dump. \u2014 Maggie Lange, Bon App\u00e9tit , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Then, in 2018, a toxic algae bloom the size of Connecticut turned the Florida Gulf Coast into a slick of dead fish. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 11 Apr. 2022",
"But the Hawks turned away the Ducks rally when Kane made a slick backhand pass to a streaking Strome for his 14th goal with 5:10 left in the second. \u2014 Jay Cohen, chicagotribune.com , 9 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4",
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense",
"Noun",
"1849, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Adverb",
"1825, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-213207"
},
"slicker":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": oilskin",
": raincoat",
": a clever crook : swindler",
": slickster",
": a city dweller especially of stylish and well-groomed appearance or sophisticated mannerisms",
": a long loose raincoat"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sli-k\u0259r",
"\u02c8sli-k\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"mac",
"mack",
"mackintosh",
"macintosh",
"oilskin",
"raincoat",
"waterproof"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he put on his slicker and boots and headed out into the rain",
"dressed in their designer duds, the out-of-state slickers stood out amongst the locals at the harvest supper",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But, this being St. George, that could change any minute, so come prepared with sunscreen as well as a rain slicker . \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 6 May 2022",
"The packaging for Anthony\u2019s high-performance eye cream could not look slicker or more masculine. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The girls\u2019 defenses aren\u2019t much slicker ; in one episode, a humble oboe plays a key role in defeating a baddie. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Taylor said the football can feel slicker in the cold, and tackling usually stings a little more. \u2014 Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer , 14 Jan. 2022",
"So things get a little slicker , more curved, with smoother edges. \u2014 Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture , 16 Dec. 2021",
"The Twitter post from Bosworth included an image of him wearing a slicker , more futuristic version of the company\u2019s wireless VR headset. \u2014 Adario Strange, Quartz , 26 Oct. 2021",
"But Emanuel, cut off from city- slicker bars, restaurants and movie theaters during the pandemic, saw his interest in the outdoors surge. \u2014 Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times , 13 Oct. 2021",
"Joe Ticheli, manager and CEO of South Louisiana Electric Cooperative Association, said rain really doesn\u2019t stop the linemen, who are outfitted with slicker suits and grit. \u2014 Rebecca Santana, Kevin Mcgill, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Sep. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1881, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-214901"
},
"slide":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to move smoothly along a surface : slip",
": to coast over snow or ice",
": to fall or dive feetfirst or headfirst when approaching a base",
": to slip or fall by loss of footing",
": to change position or become dislocated : shift",
": to slither along the ground : crawl",
": to stream along : flow",
": to move or pass smoothly or easily",
": to pass unnoticed or unremarked",
": to pass unobtrusively : steal",
": to pass by gradations especially downward",
": to cause to glide or slip",
": to traverse in a sliding manner",
": to put unobtrusively or stealthily",
": an act or instance of sliding",
": a musical grace of two or more small notes",
": portamento",
": a sliding part or mechanism: such as",
": a U-shaped section of tube in the trombone that is pushed out and in to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics",
": a short U-shaped section of tube in a brass instrument that is used to adjust the pitch of the instrument or of individual valves",
": a moving piece (such as the ram of a punch press) that is guided by a part along which it slides",
": a guiding surface (such as a feeding mechanism) along which something slides",
": sliding seat",
": a step-in shoe or slipper",
": the descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountainside",
": a dislocation in which one rock mass in a mining lode has slid on another : fault",
": a slippery surface for coasting",
": a chute with a slippery bed down which children slide in play",
": a channel or track on which something is slid",
": a sloping trough down which objects are carried by gravity",
": a flat piece of glass or plastic on which an object is mounted for microscopic examination",
": a photographic transparency on a small plate or film mounted for projection",
": an electronic image presented as a part of a series",
": bottleneck sense 3",
": to move or cause to move smoothly over a surface : glide",
": to move or pass smoothly and without much effort",
": to get gradually worse over time",
": the act or motion of moving smoothly over a surface",
": a movement to a lower or worse condition",
": a surface down which a person or thing slides",
": a loosened mass that moves swiftly : avalanche",
": a glass or plastic plate for holding an object to be examined under a microscope",
": a transparent picture that can be projected on a screen",
": something that operates or adjusts by sliding",
": a flat piece of glass or plastic on which an object is mounted for microscopic examination"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u012bd",
"\u02c8sl\u012bd",
"\u02c8sl\u012bd"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurk",
"mooch",
"mouse",
"pussyfoot",
"shirk",
"skulk",
"slink",
"slip",
"snake",
"sneak",
"steal"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"At 6-foot-4, Ivey has plus size at the point guard position or could slide to shooting guard alongside Cade Cunningham. \u2014 Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press , 24 May 2022",
"And this fits with other reports that Apple Watch Series 3 will likely be retired this year, meaning that Apple Watch SE will slide into the position of entry-level Watch. \u2014 David Phelan, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"For the fifth starter spot, the Reds have Triple-A call-up Connor Overton and waiver claim Robert Dugger, who could potentially slide into a full-time role in the rotation. \u2014 Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer , 7 May 2022",
"The idea that Moshe could slide from the mental health system to jail or prison terrifies Rae. \u2014 Sarah Blesener, ProPublica , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Traore is a 5-star prospect who at 6-10 could slide into the void potentially left by Smith. \u2014 al , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Whoever can best find that balance at Auto Club could slide into the driver\u2019s seat in the early-season push for the top of the Cup Series rankings. \u2014 Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times , 25 Feb. 2022",
"While some stocks may look like a bargain during the selloff, market analysts say investors should proceed with caution, warning that stocks could slide even further. \u2014 Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY , 24 Feb. 2022",
"If Iranian oil returned to the market in 2023, an excellent possibility, Galimberti believed that if Russia didn\u2019t attack, prices could slide back below $60 to $70. \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"While acknowledging that the Brewers' ever-growing IL has played a large role in the team's recent slide , Stearns indicated it can't be used as an excuse. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel , 11 June 2022",
"The World Trade Organization is facing one of its most dire moments, the culmination of years of slide toward oblivion and ineffectiveness. \u2014 Jamey Keaten, ajc , 11 June 2022",
"The festivities included a trampoline, bounce house and slide , ball pit, face painter, and pool. \u2014 Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
"Eerie slide guitar music and a haunting theme song reminiscent of a David Lynch movie add to the unreal banality of the evil revealed. \u2014 Globe Correspondent, BostonGlobe.com , 9 June 2022",
"Just add a pair of slide sandals and sunglasses, and your vacation look is sorted. \u2014 Madeline Fass, Vogue , 9 June 2022",
"Another slide from the REcon talk shows an overview of VCSec. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 8 June 2022",
"In the next aisle, longtime fair merchants Edie and Carlos Borel of Louisiana were setting up their sales booth for the Gripstic, a slide -on plastic clip that keeps chips and other snack bags fresh, priced at 12 for $25. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 June 2022",
"While off-site construction is helping lessen closures on I-94, both directions will still need to be closed between I-75 and M-10 (Lodge Freeway) for seven days during bridge slide work. \u2014 Layla Mcmurtrie, Detroit Free Press , 8 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-181948"
},
"slight":{
"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"having a slim or delicate build not stout or massive in body",
"lacking in strength or substance flimsy , frail",
"deficient in weight, solidity, or importance trivial",
"small of its kind or in amount",
"to treat as slight or unimportant make light of",
"to treat with disdain or indifference",
"to perform or attend to carelessly and inadequately",
"an act or an instance of slighting",
"an instance of being slighted a humiliating discourtesy",
"small of its kind or in amount",
"thin and delicate",
"not important trivial",
"flimsy , frail",
"to treat without proper respect or courtesy",
"an act or an instance of treating without proper respect or courtesy",
"an instance of being treated without proper respect or courtesy"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8sl\u012bt",
"synonyms":[
"asthenic",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"down-and-out",
"effete",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"languid",
"low",
"prostrate",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"soft",
"softened",
"tender",
"unsubstantial",
"wasted",
"weak",
"weakened",
"wimpish",
"wimpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"affront",
"dis",
"diss",
"disrespect",
"insult",
"offend",
"outrage",
"slap",
"wound"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"The boy who stepped into the cab of her white pickup truck was slight and painfully quiet. \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"And humans can be slow to incorporate new information into their guiding principles, particularly if the change in a variable is slight . \u2014 Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 May 2022",
"My mother was slight , but her frame belied her grit and resilience. \u2014 Nadja Halilbegovich, Time , 5 May 2022",
"When Rachman does reference his past work, his reflections are slight . \u2014 Krithika Varagur, The New Republic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"And from most of those states, the increase in movers was slight or negligible. \u2014 Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Clarkson and Watterson insist any change will be slight . \u2014 Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The difference between them is as slight and immense as the difference between life and death, a truth and a lie. \u2014 George Packer, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The showers chances are slight , but with temperatures dropping to about 35 degrees, any rain may be mixed with snow early in the day. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
"To say that music was another backdrop for partying is not to slight the music. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 27 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s not to slight the Navy, but, to be frank, the Navy\u2019s management record on Red Hill is pretty poor. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Since March, the law has been used at least 15 times to punish people who slight party history. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Nov. 2021",
"For Claire, stepping back from her bright career would slight Martha, who could never afford such comforts. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 28 Oct. 2021",
"The response Miss Manners dislikes is your assumption that the host intended to slight some of her guests and hog all the wine for her end of the table. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"Super Cruise\u2019s accident rate is superb at present, while Tesla\u2019s accident rate with Autopilot on is similar to or slight worse than with Autopilot off. \u2014 Brad Templeton, Forbes , 28 May 2021",
"Not to slight female birds, but that plumage is not recognized as easily as that of breeding males. \u2014 Jim Williams, Star Tribune , 11 May 2021",
"The storm prediction center has highlighted areas with a marginal to slight chance for severe weather from North Carolina stretching back to Texas. \u2014 Adam Klotz, Fox News , 10 May 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"Whether Embiid intended that as a slight is irrelevant. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
"Your first tendency, of course, will be to take a negative comment as a personal slight . \u2014 Graydon Mckee, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"The simplicity of the premise should not be read as a slight . \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 20 May 2022",
"Think of it more as a slight , though initially alarming, change from the norm. \u2014 Chloe Berger, Fortune , 19 May 2022",
"Playing without Ja Morant, Memphis continued to thrive without him \u2013 not a slight at Morant so much as a credit to their depth and confidence. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"That\u2019s not a slight at all to Buckner, who has been tremendous all season. \u2014 Doug Farrar, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2021",
"This is not meant as a slight , but there are a few head-scratchers on your r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 Mar. 2022",
"In the face of another slight , Wheeler has no problem proving herself again. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 July 2021"
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": having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body",
": lacking in strength or substance : flimsy , frail",
": deficient in weight, solidity, or importance : trivial",
": small of its kind or in amount",
": to treat as slight or unimportant : make light of",
": to treat with disdain or indifference",
": to perform or attend to carelessly and inadequately",
": an act or an instance of slighting",
": an instance of being slighted : a humiliating discourtesy",
": small of its kind or in amount",
": thin and delicate",
": not important : trivial",
": flimsy , frail",
": to treat without proper respect or courtesy",
": an act or an instance of treating without proper respect or courtesy",
": an instance of being treated without proper respect or courtesy"
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"\u02c8sl\u012bt",
"\u02c8sl\u012bt"
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"down-and-out",
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"sapped",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The boy who stepped into the cab of her white pickup truck was slight and painfully quiet. \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"And humans can be slow to incorporate new information into their guiding principles, particularly if the change in a variable is slight . \u2014 Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 May 2022",
"My mother was slight , but her frame belied her grit and resilience. \u2014 Nadja Halilbegovich, Time , 5 May 2022",
"When Rachman does reference his past work, his reflections are slight . \u2014 Krithika Varagur, The New Republic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"And from most of those states, the increase in movers was slight or negligible. \u2014 Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Clarkson and Watterson insist any change will be slight . \u2014 Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The difference between them is as slight and immense as the difference between life and death, a truth and a lie. \u2014 George Packer, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The showers chances are slight , but with temperatures dropping to about 35 degrees, any rain may be mixed with snow early in the day. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"To say that music was another backdrop for partying is not to slight the music. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 27 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s not to slight the Navy, but, to be frank, the Navy\u2019s management record on Red Hill is pretty poor. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Since March, the law has been used at least 15 times to punish people who slight party history. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Nov. 2021",
"For Claire, stepping back from her bright career would slight Martha, who could never afford such comforts. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 28 Oct. 2021",
"The response Miss Manners dislikes is your assumption that the host intended to slight some of her guests and hog all the wine for her end of the table. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"Super Cruise\u2019s accident rate is superb at present, while Tesla\u2019s accident rate with Autopilot on is similar to or slight worse than with Autopilot off. \u2014 Brad Templeton, Forbes , 28 May 2021",
"Not to slight female birds, but that plumage is not recognized as easily as that of breeding males. \u2014 Jim Williams, Star Tribune , 11 May 2021",
"The storm prediction center has highlighted areas with a marginal to slight chance for severe weather from North Carolina stretching back to Texas. \u2014 Adam Klotz, Fox News , 10 May 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Whether Embiid intended that as a slight is irrelevant. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
"Your first tendency, of course, will be to take a negative comment as a personal slight . \u2014 Graydon Mckee, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"The simplicity of the premise should not be read as a slight . \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 20 May 2022",
"Think of it more as a slight , though initially alarming, change from the norm. \u2014 Chloe Berger, Fortune , 19 May 2022",
"Playing without Ja Morant, Memphis continued to thrive without him \u2013 not a slight at Morant so much as a credit to their depth and confidence. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"That\u2019s not a slight at all to Buckner, who has been tremendous all season. \u2014 Doug Farrar, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2021",
"This is not meant as a slight , but there are a few head-scratchers on your r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 Mar. 2022",
"In the face of another slight , Wheeler has no problem proving herself again. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 July 2021"
],
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},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": characterized by disregard or disrespect : disparaging"
],
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"\u02c8sl\u012b-ti\u014b"
],
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"belittling",
"contemptuous",
"decrying",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
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"denigratory",
"deprecatory",
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"derisory",
"derogative",
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"pejorative",
"scornful",
"uncomplimentary"
],
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"commendatory",
"complimentary",
"laudative",
"laudatory"
],
"examples":[
"slighting remarks about the general lack of musical talent among the contestants"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1632, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205248"
},
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"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"having a slim or delicate build not stout or massive in body",
"lacking in strength or substance flimsy , frail",
"deficient in weight, solidity, or importance trivial",
"small of its kind or in amount",
"to treat as slight or unimportant make light of",
"to treat with disdain or indifference",
"to perform or attend to carelessly and inadequately",
"an act or an instance of slighting",
"an instance of being slighted a humiliating discourtesy",
"small of its kind or in amount",
"thin and delicate",
"not important trivial",
"flimsy , frail",
"to treat without proper respect or courtesy",
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"an instance of being treated without proper respect or courtesy"
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"asthenic",
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"effete",
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"enfeebled",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"languid",
"low",
"prostrate",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"soft",
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"tender",
"unsubstantial",
"wasted",
"weak",
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"diss",
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"slap",
"wound"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"The boy who stepped into the cab of her white pickup truck was slight and painfully quiet. \u2014 Teo Armus, Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"And humans can be slow to incorporate new information into their guiding principles, particularly if the change in a variable is slight . \u2014 Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 May 2022",
"My mother was slight , but her frame belied her grit and resilience. \u2014 Nadja Halilbegovich, Time , 5 May 2022",
"When Rachman does reference his past work, his reflections are slight . \u2014 Krithika Varagur, The New Republic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"And from most of those states, the increase in movers was slight or negligible. \u2014 Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Clarkson and Watterson insist any change will be slight . \u2014 Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The difference between them is as slight and immense as the difference between life and death, a truth and a lie. \u2014 George Packer, The Atlantic , 10 Mar. 2022",
"The showers chances are slight , but with temperatures dropping to about 35 degrees, any rain may be mixed with snow early in the day. \u2014 oregonlive , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
"To say that music was another backdrop for partying is not to slight the music. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 27 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s not to slight the Navy, but, to be frank, the Navy\u2019s management record on Red Hill is pretty poor. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Since March, the law has been used at least 15 times to punish people who slight party history. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Nov. 2021",
"For Claire, stepping back from her bright career would slight Martha, who could never afford such comforts. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 28 Oct. 2021",
"The response Miss Manners dislikes is your assumption that the host intended to slight some of her guests and hog all the wine for her end of the table. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"Super Cruise\u2019s accident rate is superb at present, while Tesla\u2019s accident rate with Autopilot on is similar to or slight worse than with Autopilot off. \u2014 Brad Templeton, Forbes , 28 May 2021",
"Not to slight female birds, but that plumage is not recognized as easily as that of breeding males. \u2014 Jim Williams, Star Tribune , 11 May 2021",
"The storm prediction center has highlighted areas with a marginal to slight chance for severe weather from North Carolina stretching back to Texas. \u2014 Adam Klotz, Fox News , 10 May 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"Whether Embiid intended that as a slight is irrelevant. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
"Your first tendency, of course, will be to take a negative comment as a personal slight . \u2014 Graydon Mckee, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"The simplicity of the premise should not be read as a slight . \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 20 May 2022",
"Think of it more as a slight , though initially alarming, change from the norm. \u2014 Chloe Berger, Fortune , 19 May 2022",
"Playing without Ja Morant, Memphis continued to thrive without him \u2013 not a slight at Morant so much as a credit to their depth and confidence. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"That\u2019s not a slight at all to Buckner, who has been tremendous all season. \u2014 Doug Farrar, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2021",
"This is not meant as a slight , but there are a few head-scratchers on your r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 Mar. 2022",
"In the face of another slight , Wheeler has no problem proving herself again. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 July 2021"
],
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},
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"type":"adjective",
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"of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length slender",
"mean , worthless",
"adroit , crafty",
"inferior in quality or amount slight",
"scanty , small",
"to make slender decrease the size of",
"to become slender",
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],
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"fine",
"hairline",
"narrow",
"needlelike",
"paper-thin",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim-jim",
"thin",
"ultrathin"
],
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"broad",
"fat",
"wide"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"Former rebel Gustavo Petro is set to be Colombia's first leftist president after voters handed him a slim victory in Sunday's runoff election against Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez, a political outsider and populist. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 20 June 2022",
"Fans of both fashion and the royals can find much to like in this slim volume. \u2014 Autumn Brewington, Washington Post , 18 June 2022",
"That huge grille is flanked by two slim lights, and generally, the front of the car looks fine. \u2014 Christian De Looper, BGR , 17 June 2022",
"Its side pockets are ideal for juice boxes, food pouches, or a slim water bottle. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 16 June 2022",
"The containers nest, and their lids are slim for easy storage. \u2014 Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Her win also has implications for Democrats\u2019 ambitions in Congress, denying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi an opportunity to add to her slim two-vote margin to pass legislation. \u2014 Brian Slodysko, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"Her win also has implications for Democrats\u2019 ambitions in Congress, denying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi an opportunity to add to her slim two-vote margin to pass legislation. FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TO THE WHITE HOUSE? \u2014 Brian Slodysko, Anchorage Daily News , 15 June 2022",
"The court in a slim 4-3 vote cited new anti-gerrymandering rules Ohio voters added to the state constitution in 2015. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
"Other, less official royal sources, said that the limited balcony lineup was the result of the longstanding desire by Prince Charles to \u2018 slim down\u2019 the monarchy. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"That didn\u2019t stop Kardashian, who asked the Ripley team to give her a few weeks to slim down and fit into the original. \u2014 Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter , 5 May 2022",
"The possibility of a liquid ocean beneath Pluto\u2019s surface increases the chance of life existing on the dwarf planet from none, to slim . \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 Mar. 2022",
"By learning how many from each category her body needed to meet her goals, Downey was able to splurge and still slim down. \u2014 Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Party leaders are engaged in an all-out effort right now to work with the various factions of the party to narrow and slim down Biden's social safety net package. \u2014 Lauren Fox, CNN , 7 Oct. 2021",
"The anonymous tipster, who has a solid track record, says recent claims that Apple will slim down the bezels on the standard models is incorrect and the phones will be identical to the current iPhone 13. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
"As far back as 1930, when director Josef von Sternberg told an already svelte Marlene Dietrich to slim down for Morocco, actresses have been pushed to lose weight. \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Democrats accelerated efforts to strike a deal on their social-policy and climate legislation, as Biden identified programs that party lawmakers could eliminate or slim down during a flurry of meetings at the White House. \u2014 WSJ , 20 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
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"Adjective",
"1657, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1862, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"slime":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": soft moist earth or clay",
": viscous mud",
": a viscous, glutinous, or gelatinous substance: such as",
": a mucous or mucoid secretion of various animals (such as slugs and catfishes)",
": a product of wet crushing consisting of ore ground so fine as to pass a 200-mesh screen",
": a morally repulsive or odious person",
": to smear or cover with slime",
": to remove slime from (something, such as fish for canning)",
": to become slimy",
": soft slippery mud",
": a soft slippery material (as on the skin of a slug or catfish)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u012bm",
"\u02c8sl\u012bm"
],
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"guck",
"gook",
"mire",
"muck",
"mud",
"ooze",
"slop",
"sludge",
"slush"
],
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"Green slime covers the surface of the pond.",
"She thinks men are slime .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Eliahana\u2019s casket \u2014 also designed by Ganem \u2014 will feature pictures of some of her favorite things: TikTok, softball and yellow slime , said uncle Rudy Aguero. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"And adopting it isn\u2019t a simple matter of intelligence, since primates and dolphins don\u2019t farm while slime molds do, cultivating crops of bacteria. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 May 2022",
"Inside this colorful club \u2014 a complimentary guest perk \u2014 children can play games or do arts and crafts (making slime is a popular one). \u2014 Jennifer Kester, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"The gates\u2014the slime and overtly yonic imagery of the entrance into the Upside Down\u2014connate a kind of birth into this world. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 29 May 2022",
"His double-breasted suit, embellished with roses and styled with a matching mock-neck top, was more of a hot pink, but no matter\u2014nothing could shine brighter on that carpet than Mod Sun\u2019s slime green hair. \u2014 Sam Reed, Glamour , 13 May 2022",
"Kids were able to create their own slime concoction at a special station featuring all the ingredients needed \u2014 including two dozen scent options \u2014 to make an awesome batch of the gooey knickknack. \u2014 Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com , 6 May 2022",
"Mook opened a freezer and pulled out a Ziploc plastic bag of icy green slime . \u2014 Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
"Jack Harlow\u2018s performance at the 2022 Kids\u2019 Choice Awards was topped off with a burst of slime . \u2014 Ashley Iasimone, Billboard , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The excursion included lots of roller coasters, slime green suckers, and Disney's famous churros\u2014an ideal Disney experience. \u2014 Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen , 18 Jan. 2022",
"On Sunday, the CBS team will be ready and armed should players or coaches agree to slime . \u2014 Jori Epstein, USA TODAY , 15 Jan. 2022",
"These growths are what attracted Webb to slime molds in the first place. \u2014 Leslie Nemo, Scientific American , 6 Jan. 2022",
"How did the swamp slime up our laws and governance before the government even existed? \u2014 Bonnie Kristian, The Week , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Parents, of course, will smile more sincerely about gifts that have some educational value \u2014 or won't slime the carpets or cause some other catastrophic mess. \u2014 Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal , 18 Nov. 2019",
"Even on its best day, disclosure mostly serves up cheap ammunition for partisans to slime their opponents. \u2014 Bradley A. Smith, National Review , 9 Aug. 2019",
"This time, the mysterious threat appears to be an attack of extraterrestrial cow patties, enormous heaps of foul-smelling gunk that fall out of the sky to slime the characters at random. \u2014 Justin Chang, latimes.com , 15 June 2018",
"All over Africa, anyone is free to slime the opposition. \u2014 The Economist , 19 Apr. 2018"
],
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173034"
},
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"type":"noun",
"definitions":[
"slime sense 3"
],
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"synonyms":[
"sleaze",
"sleazebag",
"sleazeball",
"slime"
],
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"examples":[
"He's a real slimeball for leaving her.",
"a real slimeball , that shyster has happily defended, for a healthy fee, drug dealers and child molesters"
],
"history_and_etymology":null,
"first_known_use":[
"1972, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"slimy":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or resembling slime : viscous",
": covered with or yielding slime",
": vile , offensive",
": having a slippery feel or look",
": covered with slime"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u012b-m\u0113",
"\u02c8sl\u012b-m\u0113"
],
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"miry",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"oozy",
"sludgy",
"slushy"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Get your slimy fingers off my jacket.",
"please remove your slimy boots before coming into the house",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Brickell doesn\u2019t cause breakouts and doesn\u2019t leave my hands feeling slimy and gross. \u2014 Jakob Schiller, Outside Online , 25 Mar. 2020",
"The practice leaves your face as slimy as slug mucus (hence the name). \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Here\u2019s what\u2019s on the podcast today: Tuscaloosa commuters Tuesday morning on Hugh Thomas Bridge and part of Lurleen Boulevard South had the pleasure of driving through slick slimy chicken parts that had spilled out of a truck. \u2014 Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Part of that teaching involves dispelling old myths: Snake skin is dry, not slimy . \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Apr. 2022",
"An actress playing Boebert sprays a slimy substance all over a congressional office. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Customs and Border Protection officers in Philadelphia recently made a series of slimy discoveries \u2013 some 300 leeches sent from Bulgaria and bound for points across the US. \u2014 Jay Croft, CNN , 12 Mar. 2022",
"As if that\u2019s not slimy enough, Coates also had a big hand in devising the new process for selecting host cities, first used to choose the host for the 2032 Games. \u2014 Nancy Armour, USA TODAY , 18 Feb. 2022",
"Maybe there\u2019s a ring of residue in the tub, signs of mold or mildew on the tile or grout, pinkish scum on the shower curtain or slimy stuff on the rubber bathmat. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-170119"
},
"slink":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal",
": to move in a sinuous provocative manner",
": to give premature birth to",
": the young of an animal (such as a calf) brought forth prematurely",
": the flesh or skin of such an animal",
": born prematurely or abortively",
": to move or go by or as if by creeping especially so as not to be noticed (as in fear or shame)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sli\u014bk",
"\u02c8sli\u014bk"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurk",
"mooch",
"mouse",
"pussyfoot",
"shirk",
"skulk",
"slide",
"slip",
"snake",
"sneak",
"steal"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"He slinked away in shame.",
"like a thief slinking about in the middle of the night",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"That the bigots slink back into their diselected holes. \u2014 Srikanth Reddy, New York Times , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Even in tracked up chunder, the skis never feel hooky and seem to slink down the fall line. \u2014 Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online , 9 Jan. 2022",
"Other testers praised the Nela for its ability to carve big turns and slink through bumps. \u2014 Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online , 9 Jan. 2022",
"The sun seemed to slink in a low arc across the sky, as if somehow sheepish about showing up on such an odd day. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Dec. 2021",
"In contrast, Stewart is quieter in person, content to slink in the background during our chat. \u2014 Nicholas Quah, Vulture , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Some homeowners opt for entrapment as a bonus feature, such as a client of Vranicar\u2019s, who didn\u2019t want a hypothetical thwarted intruder to be able to simply slink away unapprehended. \u2014 Lucy Alexander, Robb Report , 11 Dec. 2021",
"The design of the property \u2014 melding elements of both French and Caribbean styles \u2014 helps guests slink from a frazzled to fully Zen state of mind upon arrival. \u2014 Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure , 3 Dec. 2021",
"Most of us probably aren\u2019t able to slink back into our previous jobs unnoticed. \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 27 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In the Harry Potter movies, coy and irritating Parvati and Padma slink in the vicinity of the main characters, hoping to be noticed by them but ultimately being cast aside and ignored. \u2014 NBC News , 24 Nov. 2021",
"Charlize Theron was seductively dishabille in a Dior gown that was part black corset and part emerald slink . \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Jan. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"1607, in the meaning defined above",
"Adjective",
"1750, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-171335"
},
"slip":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun (1)",
"noun (2)",
"noun (3)",
"verb",
"verb (1)",
"verb (2)"
],
"definitions":[
"to move with a smooth sliding motion",
"to move quietly and cautiously steal",
"elapse , pass",
"to escape from memory or consciousness",
"to become uttered through inadvertence",
"to pass quickly or easily away become lost",
"to fall into error or fault lapse",
"to slide out of place or away from a support or one's grasp",
"to slide on or down a slippery surface",
"to flow smoothly",
"to get speedily into or out of clothing",
"to fall off from a standard or accustomed level by degrees decline",
"sideslip",
"to cause to move easily and smoothly slide",
"to get away from elude , evade",
"to free oneself from",
"to escape from (one's memory or notice)",
"shed , cast",
"to put on (a garment) quickly",
"to let loose from a restraining leash or grasp",
"to cause to slip open release , undo",
"to let go of",
"to disengage from (an anchor) instead of hauling",
"to insert, place, or pass quietly or secretly",
"to give or pay on the sly",
"slink , abort",
"dislocate",
"to transfer (a stitch) from one needle to another without working a stitch",
"to avoid (a punch) by moving the body or head quickly to one side",
"a sloping ramp extending out into the water to serve as a place for landing or repairing ships",
"a ship's or boat's berth between two piers",
"the act or an instance of departing secretly or hurriedly",
"a mistake in judgment, policy, or procedure",
"an unintentional and trivial mistake or fault lapse",
"a leash so made that it can be quickly slipped",
"the act or an instance of slipping down or out of a place",
"a sudden mishap",
"a movement dislocating parts (as of a rock or soil mass)",
"the result of such movement",
"a fall from some level or standard decline",
"an undergarment made in dress length and usually having shoulder straps",
"half-slip",
"a case into which something is slipped",
"pillowcase",
"a disposition or tendency to slip easily",
"the action of sideslipping an instance of sideslipping",
"a small shoot or twig cut for planting or grafting scion",
"descendant , offspring",
"a long narrow strip of material",
"a small piece of paper",
"a young and slender person",
"a long seat or narrow pew",
"to take cuttings from (a plant) divide into slips",
"a mixture of finely divided clay and water used especially by potters (as for casting or decorating wares or in cementing separately formed parts)",
"to move easily and smoothly",
"to slide into or out of place or away from a support",
"to slide on a slippery surface so as to lose balance",
"to pass or let pass or escape without being noted, used, or done",
"to move into or out of a place without being noticed",
"to escape the attention or memory of",
"to put on or take off a piece of clothing quickly and easily",
"to make or become known by mistake",
"to go from one state or condition to an often worse one",
"to get away from",
"to make a mistake",
"the act or an instance of sliding down or out of place",
"a secret or quick departure or escape",
"a small mistake blunder",
"a fall from some level or standard decline",
"a place for a ship between two piers",
"an undergarment for women made in dress or skirt length",
"a usually small piece of paper and especially one used for some record",
"a long narrow piece of material"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slip",
"\u02c8slip"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb (1)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a",
"Noun (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun (2)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb (2)",
"1530, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun (3)",
"1640, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-164600"
},
"slipup":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": mistake",
": mischance",
": to make a mistake : blunder"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slip-\u02cc\u0259p"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"bobble",
"boo-boo",
"boob",
"brick",
"clanger",
"clinker",
"error",
"fault",
"flub",
"fluff",
"fumble",
"gaff",
"gaffe",
"goof",
"inaccuracy",
"lapse",
"miscue",
"misstep",
"mistake",
"oversight",
"screwup",
"slip",
"stumble",
"trip"
],
"antonyms":[
"blunder",
"boob",
"err",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mess (up)",
"screw up",
"stumble",
"trip"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"We were late because of a slipup in the schedule.",
"the marketing director made sure there were no slipups for the important presentation",
"Verb",
"if you slip up in copying the data, the final result will of course be wrong",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Next in order is the AI Ethics washing which is a slipup . \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"After the fourth or fifth slipup , Chris interrupted Khalilzad. \u2014 Michael Ames, The New Yorker , 7 Sep. 2021",
"Instead, the inning kept going, and Jace Peterson broke a 2-2 tie with a single off Jose Alvarez, a rare slipup for the lefty, who had been a magician of late. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Sep. 2021",
"With so much of the global economy\u2014and global geopolitics\u2014suddenly rotating around it, however, the consequences of any slipup could be severe. \u2014 Jacky Wong, WSJ , 15 July 2021",
"Thought bubble: Biden\u2019s slipup in the heat of the moment shows he is concerned about throwing olive branches to the left in order to energize young people that dominate Sanders\u2019 base of support. \u2014 Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner , 16 Mar. 2020",
"The media sometimes calls these gaffes, or slipups . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 18 Sep. 2019",
"The media sometimes calls these gaffes, or slipups . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 18 Sep. 2019",
"The media sometimes calls these gaffes, or slipups . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 18 Sep. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1854, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1909, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-220614"
},
"slit":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a long narrow cut or opening",
": to make a slit in",
": to cut off or away : sever",
": to form into a slit",
": to cut into long narrow strips",
": a long narrow cut or opening",
": to make a long narrow cut in : slash"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slit",
"\u02c8slit"
],
"synonyms":[
"gash",
"incision",
"laceration",
"rent",
"rip",
"slash",
"tear"
],
"antonyms":[
"cut",
"gash",
"incise",
"rip",
"shear",
"slash",
"slice"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"You could see through the slit in the fence.",
"The skirt has a slit on one side.",
"a dress with a slit skirt",
"Verb",
"I slit the bag open at the top.",
"The bag of seeds had been slit open.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Hadid was photographed in a nude Versace lace-up corset dress with a very high leg slit from fall 2003. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 26 May 2022",
"The Jennifer's Body actress looked ravishing in an elegant black gown by David Koma, which featured a dramatic V-cut and a pelvic-grazing leg slit . \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 16 May 2022",
"Megan Thee Stallion went in another direction in an animal print dress with an oh-so-high slit . \u2014 Leanne Italie, ajc , 4 Apr. 2022",
"One quite shockingly has his throat slit without explanation. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 19 May 2022",
"The gown, which featured a thigh-high leg slit , included an asymmetrical bust and a structured waist. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 3 May 2022",
"After wearing a bondage dress to the awards show, Lipa posted an Instagram video of herself this week in a black lace-up corset dress from Alessandra Rich with a thigh-high leg slit . \u2014 ELLE , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Lorenzo Serafini dress with a high leg slit and Andrea Wazen shoes. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 14 May 2022",
"The strapless dress featured a classic sweetheart neckline and a thigh-high leg slit . \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 13 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The bride wore a sleek, off-the-shoulder custom Versace dress with a leg-revealing slit up one side and a classic white veil with satin edging. \u2014 Alexandra Macon, Vogue , 10 June 2022",
"Nearly a month later, Blinston worked on the home of Sandra George, 82, before allegedly returning to slit her throat as well. \u2014 Landon Mion, Fox News , 21 May 2022",
"Father Jacques Hamel was leading morning Mass in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in July 2016 when two attackers stormed in, forced the 85-year-old to his knees and slit his throat. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Baum then slit Otteson\u2019s throat, Lewis said, and threw both teenagers into the 1,800-foot shaft, where their bodies were discovered months later, in March 2018. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Others slit their own throats, cut off their own hands, jumped from windows. \u2014 Kristen Green, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Soon, a throat has been slit , the death setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events. \u2014 Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Threatening messages also were sent to Fullerton State\u2019s Facebook page, including threats to slit the throats of the children of the person who oversees that university\u2019s social media channel, the Long Beach Post reports, citing the search warrant. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Police said Vilella then grabbed her mother's arm and started stabbing her in the torso and abdomen before attempting to slit her throat in the area of Seventh Avenue and Elwood Street. \u2014 Brock Blasdell, The Arizona Republic , 21 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"12th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194642"
},
"slob":{
"type":"noun",
"definitions":[
"a slovenly or boorish person",
"an ordinary person",
"a sloppy or lazy person",
"an ordinary person"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8sl\u00e4b",
"synonyms":[
"sloven"
],
"antonyms":[
"neatnik",
"old maid"
],
"examples":[
"Some poor slob got robbed.",
"a slob of a professor whose office was littered with a decade's worth of notes and student papers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The apparently irresistible rise of the slob is hardly our most important problem. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 8 Jan. 2022",
"An exhibitionist and slob , who brought strange men to the house. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Oct. 2021",
"In the spot, Mayfield is a semi slob and has an annoying habit of singing the Oklahoma fight song in his sleep. \u2014 Bob Mcmanaman, The Arizona Republic , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"This vainest of Falstaffs is a genuine slob whom Boritt houses in a shabby bachelor pad wallpapered in purple zebra stripes. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Irish slab mud, ooze, slovenly person",
"first_known_use":[
"1861, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"slobber":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to let saliva dribble from the mouth : drool",
": to indulge the feelings effusively and without restraint",
": to smear with or as if with dribbling saliva or food",
": saliva drooled from the mouth",
": driveling, sloppy, or incoherent utterance",
": to let saliva or liquid dribble from the mouth",
": dripping saliva"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00e4-b\u0259r",
"\u02c8sl\u00e4-b\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribble",
"drivel",
"drool",
"salivate",
"slaver"
],
"antonyms":[
"drool",
"saliva",
"slaver",
"spit",
"spittle"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Her baby just slobbered on the blanket.",
"The puppy slobbered all over me.",
"Noun",
"the dog got slobber all over our tennis ball",
"I couldn't make out any of the panhandler's slobber , but I gave the poor soul a buck anyway.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Football players slobber all over one other, but they are being regularly tested, and being on a team arguably gives them additional incentive to be careful\u2014to wear masks and avoid parties. \u2014 Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker , 29 Aug. 2020",
"Trail fiends can slobber over the two-door Badlands trail rig, which includes a Warn winch, tube doors, and the inevitable roof rack. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 13 Aug. 2020",
"Let two teams slobber , breathe and sweat all over each other for three hours? \u2014 Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com , 9 July 2020",
"For seven years, Trip has wobbled and slobbered his way into the hearts of Butler University players and fans. \u2014 Dean Reynolds, CBS News , 10 Mar. 2020",
"Bloomberg presumably has enough money to buy a personal pizza for himself instead of slobbering up whatever his campaign staffers have ordered. \u2014 TheWeek , 3 Mar. 2020",
"Bailey proved a charismatic if unpredictable surrogate, whacking things with his tail, rolling around with his paws in the air, munching on hoodies and slobbering on the volunteers. \u2014 Sarah Lyall, New York Times , 28 Jan. 2020",
"Splitting major categories into two sub-categories \u2013 drama, and musical or comedy -- gives Globes voters even more opportunity to slobber happily over works that probably won\u2019t earn Oscar or Emmy nods. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 Dec. 2019",
"Also sharing the premises is a large, slobbering bull mastiff dog, because no family film should be without adorable canine reaction shots. \u2014 Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter , 7 Nov. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Henry and Celia talk, a man whose directives grow clearer as the intentions behind them, behind this whole mysterious mess, grow more slippery (and as the actors\u2019 makeup gets more distorted by slobber ). \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Other than getting covered in grizzly slobber , the system displayed no damage whatsoever. \u2014 Wes Siler, Outside Online , 9 May 2019",
"Though gentle, the family weighs 460 pounds total, not including slobber . \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2021",
"For example, hydrogen peroxide can help clean the slobber off of your One Direction statue. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 2 Oct. 2021",
"The practice of curiosity leads us into a place of openness and wonder \u2014 a drooling for more without the slobber . \u2014 Jay Steven Levin, Forbes , 1 June 2021",
"Out on the lab\u2019s playground where the students, puppy and undergraduate alike, roll and wrestle and woof and slobber under that Carolina blue sky. \u2014 Daniel Dorsa, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Nov. 2020",
"Nyati will look at the patch and tell you what the young bull was eating five minutes ago by the slobber on his muzzle. \u2014 David E. Petzal, Field & Stream , 27 Dec. 2017",
"Will Gradishar, now 67 years old and 36 NFL seasons removed from the last of his slobber -knocking 2,049 tackles, ever get that call from the Pro Football Hall of Fame, welcoming him into the sport\u2019s most exclusive club? \u2014 Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post , 15 Jan. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"1607, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"circa 1755, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191943"
},
"slobbish":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a slovenly or boorish person",
": an ordinary person",
": a sloppy or lazy person",
": an ordinary person"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00e4b",
"\u02c8sl\u00e4b"
],
"synonyms":[
"sloven"
],
"antonyms":[
"neatnik",
"old maid"
],
"examples":[
"Some poor slob got robbed.",
"a slob of a professor whose office was littered with a decade's worth of notes and student papers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The apparently irresistible rise of the slob is hardly our most important problem. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 8 Jan. 2022",
"An exhibitionist and slob , who brought strange men to the house. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Oct. 2021",
"In the spot, Mayfield is a semi slob and has an annoying habit of singing the Oklahoma fight song in his sleep. \u2014 Bob Mcmanaman, The Arizona Republic , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"This vainest of Falstaffs is a genuine slob whom Boritt houses in a shabby bachelor pad wallpapered in purple zebra stripes. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Irish slab mud, ooze, slovenly person",
"first_known_use":[
"1861, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-222612"
},
"slope":{
"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"that slants sloping",
"to take an oblique course",
"to lie or fall in a slant incline",
"go , travel",
"to cause to incline or slant",
"ground that forms a natural or artificial incline",
"upward or downward slant or inclination or degree of slant",
"the part of a continent draining to a particular ocean",
"the tangent of the angle made by a straight line with the x-axis",
"the slope of the line tangent to a plane curve at a point",
"a piece of slanting ground (as a hillside)",
"upward or downward slant",
"to take a slanting direction"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8sl\u014dp",
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"cant",
"cock",
"heel",
"incline",
"lean",
"list",
"pitch",
"slant",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"antonyms":[
"cant",
"diagonal",
"grade",
"gradient",
"inclination",
"incline",
"lean",
"pitch",
"rake",
"slant",
"upgrade"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web Adjective",
"Below, Vogue tracks the most noteworthy openings, from restaurants, to stores, to post- slope hotspots. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 26 Nov. 2021",
"In an interview in September, Friedman said that installing a mid- slope retaining wall downhill from the Georges\u2019 building would cost $5 million. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Friedman said that the new geotechnical studies show that in order to save the building, the port would have to spend $5 million to install a mid- slope retaining wall. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web Verb",
"Official policy is that the treadway should slope down at a 5-degree angle. \u2014 Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor , 18 May 2022",
"If possible, slope the window sill downwards, so water easily drains off. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 10 May 2022",
"The small building lights twinkling on rolling hills felt familiar, like the view from my grandmother\u2019s fifth-story apartment in Beirut, another city where mountains slope into the sea. \u2014 Raffi Joe Wartanian, Outside Online , 8 Oct. 2020",
"The pipe must slope evenly from the highest point of the bed to the lowest point, where water can discharge out of the garden to work properly. \u2014 Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The cobblestone streets of downtown Richmond, Virginia, gently slope to a low-lying area where a dark history is hidden. \u2014 Kristen Green, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Apr. 2022",
"On the bright side, the company's 2022 Fuel Outlook predicts prices will start to slope downward after that, with a national average all the way down to $3.78 by December 2022. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 6 Mar. 2022",
"The city encircles its harbor, on hillsides that slope down to the seafront. \u2014 Odveig Klyve, The New Yorker , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Our gardens slope off gently and blend into the native vegetation. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web Noun",
"Boyd ran the brush down the slope of Lincoln\u2019s nose and along the curve of his forehead. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"After driving to the location, Matzen then rolled the body down a slope near a pond. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 May 2022",
"Suzy Harris Rytting skis down the slope of an unidentified Utah resort in the late 1940s or early 1950s. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Mar. 2022",
"So value averaging is a kind of bet that markets won\u2019t soon return to the abnormally smooth upward slope of, say, the mid-2010s. \u2014 Jason Zweig, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"The company is still determining how much copper and how many jobs might come from its newer Copper World project, on the west slope of the Santa Ritas. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 17 May 2022",
"Some people might care to spend the night at the abbey\u2019s St. Benedict Guesthouse & Retreat Center on the south slope of the hill. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 May 2022",
"The Laguna Niguel fire was the result of a combination of strong winds, dry vegetation and the steep slope of the area where the fire was first detected, Fennessy said. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"Regrading to change the slope of a lot may also endanger utility lines. \u2014 Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune , 7 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"15th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1591, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"circa 1568, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"sloped":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": that slants : sloping",
": to take an oblique course",
": to lie or fall in a slant : incline",
": go , travel",
": to cause to incline or slant",
": ground that forms a natural or artificial incline",
": upward or downward slant or inclination or degree of slant",
": the part of a continent draining to a particular ocean",
": the tangent of the angle made by a straight line with the x-axis",
": the slope of the line tangent to a plane curve at a point",
": a piece of slanting ground (as a hillside)",
": upward or downward slant",
": to take a slanting direction"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u014dp",
"\u02c8sl\u014dp"
],
"synonyms":[
"angle",
"cant",
"cock",
"heel",
"incline",
"lean",
"list",
"pitch",
"slant",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"antonyms":[
"cant",
"diagonal",
"grade",
"gradient",
"inclination",
"incline",
"lean",
"pitch",
"rake",
"slant",
"upgrade"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Below, Vogue tracks the most noteworthy openings, from restaurants, to stores, to post- slope hotspots. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 26 Nov. 2021",
"In an interview in September, Friedman said that installing a mid- slope retaining wall downhill from the Georges\u2019 building would cost $5 million. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Friedman said that the new geotechnical studies show that in order to save the building, the port would have to spend $5 million to install a mid- slope retaining wall. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Official policy is that the treadway should slope down at a 5-degree angle. \u2014 Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor , 18 May 2022",
"If possible, slope the window sill downwards, so water easily drains off. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 10 May 2022",
"The small building lights twinkling on rolling hills felt familiar, like the view from my grandmother\u2019s fifth-story apartment in Beirut, another city where mountains slope into the sea. \u2014 Raffi Joe Wartanian, Outside Online , 8 Oct. 2020",
"The pipe must slope evenly from the highest point of the bed to the lowest point, where water can discharge out of the garden to work properly. \u2014 Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The cobblestone streets of downtown Richmond, Virginia, gently slope to a low-lying area where a dark history is hidden. \u2014 Kristen Green, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Apr. 2022",
"On the bright side, the company's 2022 Fuel Outlook predicts prices will start to slope downward after that, with a national average all the way down to $3.78 by December 2022. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 6 Mar. 2022",
"The city encircles its harbor, on hillsides that slope down to the seafront. \u2014 Odveig Klyve, The New Yorker , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Our gardens slope off gently and blend into the native vegetation. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Boyd ran the brush down the slope of Lincoln\u2019s nose and along the curve of his forehead. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"After driving to the location, Matzen then rolled the body down a slope near a pond. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 May 2022",
"Suzy Harris Rytting skis down the slope of an unidentified Utah resort in the late 1940s or early 1950s. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Mar. 2022",
"So value averaging is a kind of bet that markets won\u2019t soon return to the abnormally smooth upward slope of, say, the mid-2010s. \u2014 Jason Zweig, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"The company is still determining how much copper and how many jobs might come from its newer Copper World project, on the west slope of the Santa Ritas. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 17 May 2022",
"Some people might care to spend the night at the abbey\u2019s St. Benedict Guesthouse & Retreat Center on the south slope of the hill. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 May 2022",
"The Laguna Niguel fire was the result of a combination of strong winds, dry vegetation and the steep slope of the area where the fire was first detected, Fennessy said. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"Regrading to change the slope of a lot may also endanger utility lines. \u2014 Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune , 7 May 2022"
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"verb"
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": go , travel",
": to cause to incline or slant",
": ground that forms a natural or artificial incline",
": upward or downward slant or inclination or degree of slant",
": the part of a continent draining to a particular ocean",
": the tangent of the angle made by a straight line with the x-axis",
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"\u02c8sl\u014dp",
"\u02c8sl\u014dp"
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"lean",
"list",
"pitch",
"slant",
"tilt",
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"incline",
"lean",
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"rake",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Below, Vogue tracks the most noteworthy openings, from restaurants, to stores, to post- slope hotspots. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 26 Nov. 2021",
"In an interview in September, Friedman said that installing a mid- slope retaining wall downhill from the Georges\u2019 building would cost $5 million. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Friedman said that the new geotechnical studies show that in order to save the building, the port would have to spend $5 million to install a mid- slope retaining wall. \u2014 Steven Litt, cleveland , 9 Sep. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Official policy is that the treadway should slope down at a 5-degree angle. \u2014 Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor , 18 May 2022",
"If possible, slope the window sill downwards, so water easily drains off. \u2014 Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens , 10 May 2022",
"The small building lights twinkling on rolling hills felt familiar, like the view from my grandmother\u2019s fifth-story apartment in Beirut, another city where mountains slope into the sea. \u2014 Raffi Joe Wartanian, Outside Online , 8 Oct. 2020",
"The pipe must slope evenly from the highest point of the bed to the lowest point, where water can discharge out of the garden to work properly. \u2014 Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune , 24 Apr. 2022",
"The cobblestone streets of downtown Richmond, Virginia, gently slope to a low-lying area where a dark history is hidden. \u2014 Kristen Green, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Apr. 2022",
"On the bright side, the company's 2022 Fuel Outlook predicts prices will start to slope downward after that, with a national average all the way down to $3.78 by December 2022. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 6 Mar. 2022",
"The city encircles its harbor, on hillsides that slope down to the seafront. \u2014 Odveig Klyve, The New Yorker , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Our gardens slope off gently and blend into the native vegetation. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Boyd ran the brush down the slope of Lincoln\u2019s nose and along the curve of his forehead. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 May 2022",
"After driving to the location, Matzen then rolled the body down a slope near a pond. \u2014 Elliot Hughes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 May 2022",
"Suzy Harris Rytting skis down the slope of an unidentified Utah resort in the late 1940s or early 1950s. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Mar. 2022",
"So value averaging is a kind of bet that markets won\u2019t soon return to the abnormally smooth upward slope of, say, the mid-2010s. \u2014 Jason Zweig, WSJ , 20 May 2022",
"The company is still determining how much copper and how many jobs might come from its newer Copper World project, on the west slope of the Santa Ritas. \u2014 Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic , 17 May 2022",
"Some people might care to spend the night at the abbey\u2019s St. Benedict Guesthouse & Retreat Center on the south slope of the hill. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 May 2022",
"The Laguna Niguel fire was the result of a combination of strong winds, dry vegetation and the steep slope of the area where the fire was first detected, Fennessy said. \u2014 Andrew Jeong, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
"Regrading to change the slope of a lot may also endanger utility lines. \u2014 Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune , 7 May 2022"
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"type":"adjective",
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"wet so as to spatter easily slushy",
"wet or smeared with or as if with something slopped over",
"slovenly , careless",
"disagreeably effusive",
"careless in work or in appearance",
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],
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"blowsy",
"blowzy",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"slobbish",
"slobby",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy"
],
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"dapper",
"dashing",
"dolled up",
"sharp",
"smart",
"spruce"
],
"examples":[
"Your work has been very sloppy lately.",
"a sloppy child who always seems to have spilled something on his clothes",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Celtics were sloppy in Game 2 against the Warriors with 19 turnovers that led to 33 points. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 6 June 2022",
"Many sheet masks are sloppy , dripping with substance, or too dried out to be useful. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Trinity\u2019s defense has been a little sloppy so far this week. \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 17 May 2022",
"Though otherwise unrelated, the five cases shared many of the same troubling traits common in wrongful convictions, including sloppy detective work, questionable legal representation, shaky witness identifications and withheld evidence. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2022",
"Ideally, that oversight would correct sloppy police work and unconstitutional law enforcement practices. \u2014 Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun , 8 Mar. 2022",
"At home, the Cardinals tend to come out a little flat and play a little sloppy . \u2014 Bob Mcmanaman, The Arizona Republic , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Taylor Ward\u2019s grand slam in the second off Cleveland starter Zach Plesac was the knockout blow after Guardians defenders opened the door with sloppy infield play. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The play fit right in to the sloppy baseball played between these teams over the past two years. \u2014 Theo Mackie, The Arizona Republic , 27 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":null,
"first_known_use":[
"1672, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-090000"
},
"slosh":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": slush sense 1",
": the slap or splash of liquid",
": to flounder or splash through water, mud, or slush",
": to move with a splashing motion",
": to splash about in liquid",
": to splash (a liquid) about or on something",
": to splash with liquid",
": to walk with trouble through water, mud, or slush",
": to move with a splashing motion"
],
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"\u02c8sl\u00e4sh",
"\u02c8sl\u022fsh",
"\u02c8sl\u00e4sh"
],
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"lap",
"plash",
"splash",
"swash"
],
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"The children sloshed through the big puddle.",
"Water sloshed in the bottom of the boat as it rocked.",
"Juice sloshed over the rim of her glass.",
"The child sloshed the water in the tub.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But the Americans could never present a stable or convincing new reality to ordinary Afghans, who watched as security crumbled and new forms of corruption flowed from the slosh of cash and contracts that came with the occupation. \u2014 Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker , 4 Aug. 2021",
"The slosh of water turns to sludge; a baby passes by him, dead and flushed away. \u2014 Imani Perry, The Atlantic , 7 May 2021",
"Constantly feeling water slosh around inside your boots usually results in your hike being cut short. \u2014 Matthew Young, chicagotribune.com , 20 Mar. 2021",
"Though the slosh of Earth\u2019s oceans produces a comparable sound, scientists have yet to suss out a plausible cause for the Red Planet\u2019s curious tune. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Feb. 2020",
"The Post\u2019s hub \u2014 a journalistic nerve center where editors once plotted coverage and sent breaking-news alerts to millions of readers \u2014 was silent but for the hum of air conditioning and the slosh of a distant mop. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Apr. 2020",
"Those lakes are filled with methane and ethane rather than water, and any inhabitants would have to deal with temperatures reaching 300 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, but where liquid sloshes , life might find a way. \u2014 Charlie Wood, Popular Science , 5 Mar. 2020",
"Earth has many steady background hums, the most prevalent of which comes from the slosh of oceans and the crash of waves against the shore. \u2014 National Geographic , 24 Feb. 2020",
"By collecting them from all over the sky, the WMAP and Planck telescopes caught the early universe and its contents mid- slosh . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 28 Jan. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The tsunami will likely slosh up the sides of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and expend its residual energy on the western shore of rural, sparsely populated Whidbey Island. \u2014 Bruce Barcott, Outside Online , 25 Aug. 2011",
"As all that cash continues to slosh around the financial system, there\u2019s no reason to think that some of it won\u2019t end up in Clinton hands, especially given the clan\u2019s documented zest for fundraising. \u2014 James Freeman, WSJ , 4 Mar. 2022",
"This superionic alloy would then allow other elements to slosh around it. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The trap is shaped like the bottom of a bowl, so the atoms gently slosh back and forth. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 7 Feb. 2022",
"The intensity fluctuations derived from the membrane then drive the atoms to slosh even more vigorously. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 7 Feb. 2022",
"This is solely from a bunch of guys who slosh around on Thanksgiving morning in Medina County. \u2014 Marc Bona, cleveland , 18 Nov. 2021",
"But the files also underscore the limits of sanctions, making clear that vast quantities of Russian money continue to slosh through secret global accounts while Moscow\u2019s actions beyond its borders seem undeterred. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 Oct. 2021",
"This was a new problem; If the gates stayed open, lake water would slosh back into the river, further flooding the city. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
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"Noun",
"1814, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1844, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194606"
},
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": inclined to sloth : indolent"
],
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"\u02c8sl\u022fth-f\u0259l",
"\u02c8sl\u00e4th-",
"also"
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"idle",
"indolent",
"lazy",
"shiftless"
],
"antonyms":[
"industrious"
],
"examples":[
"his overly lax managerial style has resulted in a department that is slothful and unproductive",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Procrastination can be slothful or prudent, a vice or a virtue, depending on your habits and the tasks at hand. \u2014 Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic , 16 Dec. 2021",
"Selfish, feckless, self-deluded, weak-willed yet childishly willful, manipulative, slothful , and mendacious: How can such a despicable character also be such a likable one? \u2014 Sigrid Nunez, Harper's Magazine , 28 Sep. 2021",
"The proud stagger beneath a sack of boulders, and the slothful atone with manic activity. \u2014 Judith Thurman, The New Yorker , 13 Sep. 2021",
"After releasing 12 albums in 13 months, Twin Cities guitarist Cory Wong will end his momentarily slothful ways and drop just his second album this year. \u2014 Jon Bream, Star Tribune , 11 May 2021",
"At the same time, others construed even the most slothful forms of idleness as a bold resistance to modernity\u2019s greatest ills. \u2014 Ingrid Nelson, The Conversation , 19 Mar. 2021",
"Another echoing aircraft hangar is home to a set representing a perfect Depression-era kitchen, where Rebel Wilson\u2019s droll, slothful Jennyanydots will lounge her days away. \u2014 Hamish Bowles, Vogue , 19 Dec. 2019",
"His lust is gluttony, and Return of the Jedi is weird enough to score his slothful malevolence to a musical number. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 6 Nov. 2019",
"The most expensive markets have the most slothful gains, and Seattle has seen prices decline 0.6 percent. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Sep. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210357"
},
"slouch":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": an awkward fellow : lout",
": one that is unimpressive",
": a lazy or incompetent person",
": a gait or posture characterized by an ungainly stooping of the head and shoulders or excessive relaxation of body muscles",
": to walk, stand, or sit with a slouch : assume a slouch",
": droop",
": to go or move slowly or reluctantly",
": to cause to droop",
": a lazy worthless person",
": a way of standing, sitting, or walking with the head and shoulders bent forward",
": to walk, stand, or sit lazily with the head and shoulders bent forward"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slau\u0307ch",
"\u02c8slau\u0307ch"
],
"synonyms":[
"couch potato",
"deadbeat",
"do-nothing",
"drone",
"idler",
"layabout",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"lotus-eater",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creak (along)",
"creep",
"drag",
"inch",
"limp",
"nose",
"ooze",
"plod",
"poke",
"snail"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"She walks with a slouch .",
"is no slouch when it comes to cooking",
"Verb",
"Sit up straight. Please don't slouch .",
"She slouched into the room.",
"The boy was slouching over his school books.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Internationally, the movie\u2019s been no slouch either, bringing in over $760 million worldwide since its release only three weeks ago. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"Caamp, playing the much smaller opening set during a warmer hour, was no slouch , either. \u2014 Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star , 15 June 2022",
"But Ferguson is no slouch himself \u2014 and this piece, which brings true crime to his usual outdoor beat, proves the tradition is in good hands. \u2014 Lisa Bubert, Longreads , 15 June 2022",
"No slouch himself is her husband, Radek Sikorski, a former foreign minister and defense minister of Poland. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 2 June 2022",
"To get equally badass performance levels required more than just adding boost to the 720S's engine\u2014which already was no slouch . \u2014 Elana Scherr, Car and Driver , 18 May 2022",
"Now, Toronto is no slouch at home their 24 home wins are the same as the 76ers, but going up against a road juggernaut is tough. \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Hollywood is no slouch in the grandiosity department, but even the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LACMA\u2019s new neighbor next door, knows better than to try to pull that one. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Despite its all-season rubber, the sportiest GV70 is no slouch when asked to hustle. \u2014 Mike Sutton, Car and Driver , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"First, the diminutive eighty-two-year-old, in the manner of a sleepy hedgehog, will gradually slouch down into the banquette, so that his head ends up where his shoulders once were. \u2014 Henry Alford, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"Women can slouch into the grocery store in flabby workout pants and a sweatshirt, just like men do. \u2014 Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al , 12 Oct. 2021",
"And, just as is the case for the audience, there\u2019s a tendency to slouch into one\u2019s chair as the speaker. \u2014 Lee Gimpel, Forbes , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Instagram will not be invented for another 20 years, and TMZ won\u2019t slouch toward Bethlehem for another 15. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 10 May 2021",
"Benchmade 533 Mini Bugout For a featherlight EDC that doesn\u2019t slouch on performance, pick the Mini Bugout. \u2014 Popular Mechanics , 30 June 2020",
"Noting the major role that our mind plays in our physical well-being, Duma advises individuals to maintain a level of calm throughout the day, as stress can trigger slouching or hunched shoulders. \u2014 Christine Burroni, Travel + Leisure , 3 May 2020",
"Buying parts for your car in the 1970s typically meant asking a guy, slouched behind a grubby counter with a cigarette or toothpick in his teeth, to fetch a spark plug or wiper blade. \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 18 Mar. 2020",
"Her skulking, slouching and grimacing complements a character who long ago decided her exterior should match the disgust that chokes her inside. \u2014 Matthew Eng, Los Angeles Times , 18 Sep. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
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"Noun",
"1515, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210327"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one habitually negligent of neatness or cleanliness especially in personal appearance",
": slovenly"
],
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"\u02c8sl\u0259-v\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"slob"
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"blowsy",
"blowzy",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"slobbish",
"slobby",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"she's a sloven and he's a neat freak\u2014it's a wonder they are able to live together",
"Adjective",
"the lawyer's sloven appearance led me to question his professionalism"
],
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"type":"adjective",
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"untidy especially in personal appearance",
"lazily slipshod",
"characteristic of a sloven",
"personally untidy",
"very careless"
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"blowsy",
"blowzy",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"slobbish",
"slobby",
"sloppy",
"sloven",
"unkempt",
"untidy"
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"dolled up",
"sharp",
"smart",
"spruce"
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"examples":[
"He dressed in a slovenly manner.",
"for the sake of their image, the band members transformed themselves from clean-cut lads to slovenly rockers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The slovenly man-child paired with the attractive partner is old hat, and the sitcom dynamic between sad-sack husband and nagging wife feels unintentionally regressive. \u2014 New York Times , 29 June 2021",
"What could be better than being a slovenly hermit with no pressure to be social? \u2014 Jill Kargman, Town & Country , 20 Apr. 2021",
"Pacific Gas & Electric, whose slovenly power grid caused numerous devastating wildfires in California, the worst of them killing 85 in the town of Paradise and destroying 18,000 buildings. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Oct. 2020",
"Think of Silicon Valley, and the notoriously slovenly offices of early Facebook, sticky with beer. \u2014 Penelope Green, New York Times , 20 Mar. 2020",
"In 2005, Pepe became a part of Furie\u2019s comic Boy\u2019s Club, a series about a silly, slovenly group of friends in an early-twenties funk. \u2014 Emma Grey Ellis, Wired , 27 Jan. 2020",
"Back to the future Marijuana advocates in Michigan aren\u2019t thrilled with the state\u2019s new anti-pot advertising campaign, which paints marijuana users as slovenly losers, the Detroit Free Press\u2019 Craig Mauger reports. \u2014 cleveland , 20 Jan. 2020",
"Gilbert and George would never shoulder such a slovenly accessory. \u2014 The Economist , 15 Nov. 2019",
"Contrary to outdated stereotypes about video gamers being unhealthy, solitary, and slovenly young people, esports has largely become about bringing a healthy, social, and structured form of team play to the video games industry. \u2014 Wired , 10 Oct. 2019"
],
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},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a slowing down",
": a slowing down of business operations by employees"
],
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"\u02c8sl\u014d-\u02ccdau\u0307n",
"\u02c8sl\u014d-\u02ccdau\u0307n"
],
"synonyms":[
"braking",
"deceleration",
"downshift",
"letup",
"retardation"
],
"antonyms":[
"acceleration",
"hastening",
"quickening"
],
"examples":[
"The business had a slowdown after the holidays.",
"disease experts are encouraged by the recent slowdown in the spread of the virus",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that U.S. retail sales unexpectedly dropped 0.3% in May, yet another sign of an economic slowdown . \u2014 Benzinga, Detroit Free Press , 18 June 2022",
"The easing of industrial output added to signs of an economic slowdown . \u2014 Rina Torchinsky, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"But, in the eyes of billionaire real estate developer Stephen M. Ross, managers who want to get people back in the office may get help from an unexpected source: the looming economic slowdown . \u2014 Nicholas Gordon, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"In turn, people will have even less money to spend, reinforcing the economic slowdown . \u2014 Max Zahn, ABC News , 16 June 2022",
"In the previous twelve recessions, stocks have typically declined by 24%, so the S&P 500 is nudging closer to pricing in an economic slowdown . \u2014 Bill Stone, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"Much of the crisis can be traced to the outbreak of Covid-19, which triggered an economic slowdown , mass layoffs and a halt to production. \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"Now retailers will be watching worriedly for a economic slowdown or even a recession on the horizon, particularly if the Federal Reserve acts even more stringently to curb inflation. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 10 June 2022",
"Asian corporate bonds will soon be attractive for investors who believe an economic slowdown remains a way off, said Neeraj Seth, head of Asian credit at BlackRock Inc. in Singapore. \u2014 Ruth Carson And Harry Suhartono, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1882, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-234124"
},
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"type":"adjective",
"definitions":[
"mentally slow dull"
],
"pronounciation":"\u02c8sl\u014d-\u02c8wi-t\u0259d",
"synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"bonehead",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
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"The temperature is slowly rising, the calendar has turned to June and that means summer, and with it summer rom-coms, are here. \u2014 Mary Cadden, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
"Oil production in the US itself is rising slowly and could reach a record of 13 million barrels per day by 2023, up from about 11.9 million now. \u2014 Tim Mcdonnell, Quartz , 3 June 2022",
"In June 2010, during the agonizingly slow recovery from the 2007-2009 Great Recession, teenage employment bottomed at 25% before slowly rising again as the economy recovered. \u2014 Paul Wiseman And Mae Anderson, Chicago Tribune , 2 June 2022",
"Hamilton said victims who were minors at the time of the abuse and came forward as adults can have a harder time because of slowly changing statutes of limitations. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 27 May 2022",
"Cases are also rising \u2014 albeit more slowly \u2014 among poorer residents, who are more likely to become seriously ill if infected. \u2014 Karen Kaplanscience And Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"Hospitalizations are rising too, albeit more slowly . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 17 May 2022",
"Hospitalizations are rising more slowly , with nearly 200 people with COVID-19 occupying hospital beds in Oregon on Monday, up 18% from one week ago. \u2014 oregonlive , 9 May 2022",
"Ferguson lay on the canvas for several minutes while being attended to by medical personnel before slowly rising to his stool. \u2014 John Marshall, ajc , 8 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Bruner said that each workout takes 45 minutes, starting with a slow jog, then a group warmup involving push-ups, uphill sprints and squats. \u2014 Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Their erratic efforts to pursue other safety measures have been infrequent, and slow , and have often been rejected by the courts. \u2014 Thoai D. Ngo, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"The central bank is ramping up its drive to tighten credit and slow growth with inflation having reached a four-decade high of 8.6%, spreading to more areas of the economy and showing no sign of slowing. \u2014 Christopher Rugaber, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"Reaching up to 27 mph in our tests, this e-bike is anything but slow . \u2014 Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping , 15 June 2022",
"Although the Fed doesn\u2019t directly control consumer interest rates, its rate increases ripple through the economy and ultimately, hit businesses and consumers and slow demand and inflation. \u2014 Medora Lee, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"The last update for Internet Explorer was in 2013, meaning the legacy browser has suffered a slow demise. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 15 June 2022",
"In the first year of SoLa ownership, orders to correct code violations were recorded at 60 buildings, and four of those cases were referred to hearings because of the slow response. \u2014 Doug Smithsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"Another factor was the international community\u2019s slow response. \u2014 Omar Faruk And Cara Anna, Anchorage Daily News , 8 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Algal blooms require sunlight, nutrients and slow -moving water to form. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 28 May 2022",
"Nighttime is when a lot of people prefer to jump, because there\u2019s less boat traffic passing underneath and therefore less chance of your crashing through the roof of a slow -moving cabin cruiser. \u2014 Charles Mcgrath, The New Yorker , 27 May 2022",
"The defensemen can\u2019t be expected to carry the offense, but 9 points vs. 21 underscores, in part, how the Hurricanes approached scoring as a five-man unit and how the Boston defensemen were the caboose on a slow -moving scoring train. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2022",
"But both antitrust lawsuits and NCAA enforcement are notoriously slow -moving. \u2014 Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune , 10 May 2022",
"The whisper-quiet, slow -moving conveyor system operates constantly, sifting the clumping litter of your choice to remove the waste, completing a full rotation each hour. \u2014 Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping , 9 May 2022",
"But there\u2019s a slow -moving campaign to change that \u2014 not by diminishing trolleys but by improving bus service and the coordination between the two. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022",
"Ayton seemed a step slow all night in allowing offensive rebounds and not handling the ball well in the paint. \u2014 Duane Rankin, USA TODAY , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Ayton seemed a step slow all night in allowing offensive rebounds and not handling the ball well in the paint. \u2014 Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But Skubal's departure didn't slow down the Rangers' offense. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 18 June 2022",
"The Alzheimer's drug crenezumab did not slow or prevent cognitive decline in a long-running study of Colombian families who carried a genetic mutation that put them at near certain risk to develop the mind-robbing disease. \u2014 Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
"The economy, however, could slow relatively quickly. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"The Fed\u2019s goal of lowering inflation comes with a major risk: Pushing rates up could slow growth too much and too fast, leading the country into a recession. \u2014 Hamza Shaban, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"That said, if high inflation persists, then rising interest rates could slow down the job market. \u2014 David Westenhaver, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Apple's silicon typically performs well without a fan, but for extended heavy-duty workloads like rendering or video encoding, the Air's M1 does slow down over time to avoid overheating, while the Pro's M1 could keep running at top speed. \u2014 Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica , 14 June 2022",
"The intersection is a critical danger point: The Akatsiya must slow to nearly a stop to make the turn. \u2014 Mac William Bishop, Rolling Stone , 12 June 2022",
"Global economic growth will slow before the end of 2022, and most countries should begin preparing for a recession, the World Bank said in an economic forecast released Tuesday. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 8 June 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The most party-hearty horror movie of a party-hearty decade, The Return of the Living Dead will bring tons of madcap energy \u2014 and toxic sludge \u2014 to your movie night. \u2014 Katie Rife, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"The lime and clay destroy the slimy glutinous character of the sewage \u2018 sludge \u2019 and keep the sewer outlet drain free from the festering and putrefying deposit which otherwise tends to choke it. \u2014 Mark Fischetti, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"The Tri-City Water Resource Recovery Facility adopted the sludge -to-energy model in August 2021. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 24 May 2022",
"There was tetraethyl lead, used in making gasoline, sludge , asphalt, hydrocarbon liquids and vapors, solvents such as kerosene, acidic residue and asbestos. \u2014 Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Many were concerned that the sludge , taken from poultry processing plants or sewage treatment plants, could also contain chemicals that would be harmful to humans or the environment. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 17 Mar. 2022",
"In the counterworld of Gutfeld!, there is no eclipse of the republic, no fascist sludge on the rise, no QAnon nibbling at the roots of reason. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 5 May 2022",
"What passes for ordinary conversation among the actors is a sludge of relentless hype and backhanded digs. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 5 Apr. 2022",
"In the deep sea, where food is scarce and the landscape is mostly a mushy sludge , a shipwreck is precious real estate. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The most party-hearty horror movie of a party-hearty decade, The Return of the Living Dead will bring tons of madcap energy \u2014 and toxic sludge \u2014 to your movie night. \u2014 Katie Rife, EW.com , 17 June 2022",
"The lime and clay destroy the slimy glutinous character of the sewage \u2018 sludge \u2019 and keep the sewer outlet drain free from the festering and putrefying deposit which otherwise tends to choke it. \u2014 Mark Fischetti, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"The Tri-City Water Resource Recovery Facility adopted the sludge -to-energy model in August 2021. \u2014 Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor , 24 May 2022",
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"Many were concerned that the sludge , taken from poultry processing plants or sewage treatment plants, could also contain chemicals that would be harmful to humans or the environment. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 17 Mar. 2022",
"In the counterworld of Gutfeld!, there is no eclipse of the republic, no fascist sludge on the rise, no QAnon nibbling at the roots of reason. \u2014 James Parker, The Atlantic , 5 May 2022",
"What passes for ordinary conversation among the actors is a sludge of relentless hype and backhanded digs. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 5 Apr. 2022",
"In the deep sea, where food is scarce and the landscape is mostly a mushy sludge , a shipwreck is precious real estate. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Mar. 2022"
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"The game picked up after a sluggish start.",
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"Still, New York\u2019s experience of the last two years \u2014 from its sluggish response in March 2020 to its successful use of vaccine mandates the next year \u2014 will be studied for decades to come. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"For some people who have a sluggish initial response (5% to 15% of the overall population), a second round of three shots -- six vaccines in all -- is required to confer immunity. \u2014 Kent Sepkowitz, CNN , 24 Dec. 2021",
"The governor this year also called on all residents to voluntarily reduce their water usage by 15%, but early results indicated a sluggish response to that request. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 8 Dec. 2021",
"The reaction is happening weeks faster than the world\u2019s sluggish response to the delta variant. \u2014 Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Newark, once castigated and sued over its sluggish response to the problem, is being held up as a potential national model. \u2014 David Porter, ajc , 7 Nov. 2021",
"Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has come under fire for her sluggish response to the water crisis in the city of Benton Harbor. \u2014 Fox News , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Farid Roushdy, the authority\u2019s senior chief pilot, blamed weather and the ship\u2019s sluggish response to steering. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2021",
"Facebook's announcements come as the tech giant faces mounting criticism over their sluggish response to COVID-19 disinformation. \u2014 Dan Patterson, CBS News , 15 Mar. 2021"
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"The game picked up after a sluggish start.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Still, New York\u2019s experience of the last two years \u2014 from its sluggish response in March 2020 to its successful use of vaccine mandates the next year \u2014 will be studied for decades to come. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"For some people who have a sluggish initial response (5% to 15% of the overall population), a second round of three shots -- six vaccines in all -- is required to confer immunity. \u2014 Kent Sepkowitz, CNN , 24 Dec. 2021",
"The governor this year also called on all residents to voluntarily reduce their water usage by 15%, but early results indicated a sluggish response to that request. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 8 Dec. 2021",
"The reaction is happening weeks faster than the world\u2019s sluggish response to the delta variant. \u2014 Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Newark, once castigated and sued over its sluggish response to the problem, is being held up as a potential national model. \u2014 David Porter, ajc , 7 Nov. 2021",
"Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has come under fire for her sluggish response to the water crisis in the city of Benton Harbor. \u2014 Fox News , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Farid Roushdy, the authority\u2019s senior chief pilot, blamed weather and the ship\u2019s sluggish response to steering. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2021",
"Facebook's announcements come as the tech giant faces mounting criticism over their sluggish response to COVID-19 disinformation. \u2014 Dan Patterson, CBS News , 15 Mar. 2021"
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],
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"\u02c8sl\u0259m-b\u0259r",
"\u02c8sl\u0259m-b\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnap",
"doze",
"nap",
"rest",
"sleep",
"snooze"
],
"antonyms":[
"bed",
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"napping",
"repose",
"rest",
"resting",
"shut-eye",
"sleep",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"z's",
"zs"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"she slumbered for hours while the train rolled on",
"slumbering restlessly in the tropical heat",
"Noun",
"She fell into deep slumber .",
"a toddler looking so innocent and peaceful in slumber",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"On two of Lindblad\u2019s newest polar vessels, the National Geographic Endurance and National Geographic Resolution, the company has introduced two first-of-its-kind igloos on the deck where guests can slumber with epic views. \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Beauty sleep is a real thing, and Slip\u2019s Celestial Nights Gift Set can make someone\u2019s bedtime slumber that much better. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Two men, contorted and confined, slumber in a vitrine, a dress shoe on one man\u2019s head, a urinal on his hip, while his genitals peek out, as the two standing men, both pants-less, observe, compelling us to participate in this overt conversation. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Polls suggest the debate over mandates has helped to solve the greatest problem Newsom always faced in the recall: the risk that Democrats -- who outnumber Republicans in the state by about 2 to 1 -- would slumber through it. \u2014 Ronald Brownstein, CNN , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Think Anthropologie for trinkets, bedding, and other fabulous finds, Saatva and Avocado for all things slumber , Dyson to upgrade your appliance game, and so much more for less. \u2014 Amanda Randone, refinery29.com , 25 May 2021",
"Game notes: Despite solid pitching, the Tigers offense continues to slumber heading into the series finale. \u2014 Andrew Hammond, Detroit Free Press , 26 Apr. 2021",
"The highest guest lodge in the Eastern United States, LeConte is the park's only place to slumber wholly protected. \u2014 Tracey Minkin, Southern Living , 9 Mar. 2021",
"Dormice prefer to slumber in the hollows of old trees\u2014and centuries of timber harvesting have stripped many of them from countries such as Poland, Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania. \u2014 Jason Bittel, Animals , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"An arriving officer learned the visitor awoke from his slumber and was now walking toward Memorial Park. \u2014 John Benson, cleveland , 18 May 2022",
"Hey, somebody woke up the cable companies from their slumber . \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 28 Apr. 2022",
"For peaceful slumber in this scenario, my favorite tool is a sound machine app on my iPhone, which minimizes street noise and sounds in the room. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Starting today, seeing eye-to-eye with your friends may be harder than usual as stubborn Venus turns retrograde for her semi-annual slumber , this time hitting the hay in your 11th House of Social Groups and Global Communications. \u2014 Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com , 19 Dec. 2021",
"The reopening comes at a time when downtown Dallas appears to be slowly waking from its COVID-19 slumber . \u2014 Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News , 18 Aug. 2021",
"But wake us from our eternal slumber when Disney does the real work: stunt-casting the hitchhiking ghosts. \u2014 Rebecca Alter, Vulture , 28 July 2021",
"Oakland\u2019s Mockingbird, for example, recently reopened after a pandemic slumber with an equal tip pool and significantly higher pay for staff, starting at $25 per hour. \u2014 Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle , 26 Nov. 2021",
"For its second career as a slumber -party site, the Gypsy Wagon will permanently reside at DreamMore. \u2014 Washington Post , 8 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192956"
},
"slurp":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make a sucking noise while eating or drinking",
": to eat or drink noisily or with a sucking sound",
": to eat or drink noisily or with a sucking sound",
": a sucking sound made while eating and drinking"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0259rp",
"\u02c8sl\u0259rp"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt (down)",
"drink",
"gulp",
"guzzle",
"hoist",
"imbibe",
"knock back",
"pound (down)",
"quaff",
"sip",
"slug (down)",
"sup",
"swig",
"swill",
"toss (down "
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"He always slurps his soup.",
"his dinner date slurped her soup directly from the bowl",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Afterward, slurp a bowl of steaming ramen at Ramen Yokocho, an alleyway lit up by paper lanterns, with a collection of over a dozen ramen shops, or soak in an onsen at Jozankei Onsen, a hot-springs resort just outside the city. \u2014 Megan Michelson, Outside Online , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Her Instagram fans slurp up the tropical tableaus and the glimpses of Gucci slippers in the background, but there is no question that her hands and their security-risk diamond content are the main draw. \u2014 Lauren Mechling, Town & Country , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Hold the aluminum cup over the plastic takeout container, jab the dumpling with a chopstick and pour in some of the black vinegar sauce, then slurp it all up. \u2014 The Chronicle Food & Wine Staff, San Francisco Chronicle , 31 Jan. 2022",
"Dunham pauses to slurp down some pho noodles and take a swig of cucumber water, which her husband has brought her. \u2014 Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter , 19 Jan. 2022",
"Heather is the only one who picks up the phone without questions (ummmm, there should have been questions), so Jen runs on over to slurp down some artichoke dip and gab about her criminal charges. \u2014 Olivia Crandall, Vulture , 12 Dec. 2021",
"Camp in the backyard to welcome the first sunrise, tuck in to a puzzle, slurp some noodles for good luck, wear red underwear, or get witchy with some ritual candles. \u2014 Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine , 10 Dec. 2021",
"Based on what previous research found on related species, this millipede may stick its beak into fungi to slurp up their innards. \u2014 ABC News , 19 Dec. 2021",
"To aid creative re-use of lunar resources, Greig and her colleagues propose a technology called ablative arc mining that would slurp up water ice and the kinds of metals that could be used as building materials. \u2014 Ramin Skibba, Wired , 22 Sep. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Dutch slurpen ; akin to Middle Low German slorpen to slurp",
"first_known_use":[
"1648, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-230739"
},
"slush":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": partly melted or watery snow",
": loose ice crystals formed during the early stages of freezing of salt water",
": slushy",
": soft mud : mire",
": refuse grease and fat from cooking especially on shipboard",
": paper pulp in water suspension",
": trashy and usually cheaply sentimental material",
": unsolicited writings submitted (as to a magazine) for publication",
": to wet or splash with slush",
": to make one's way through slush",
": to make a splashing sound",
": partly melted snow"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0259sh",
"\u02c8sl\u0259sh"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"a sidewalk covered with slush",
"The movie is just a lot of romantic slush .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The lake had about a foot of snow and slush atop at least 12 inches of solid ice. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 May 2022",
"This is my favorite story of the day is the plan by Cuyahoga county council to create $66 million in slush funds legal in the charter. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Fayetteville road crews got to work by early afternoon to clear out slush from the streets. \u2014 Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online , 26 Feb. 2022",
"White snow blankets the street, gray slush devouring its edges. \u2014 Bob Odenkirk, The New Yorker , 21 Feb. 2022",
"Skiing through the slush with no cares and no worries except the desire to fabricate danger to feel more alive. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 May 2022",
"Non-metered street parking and an adjacent lot for the building are available \u2013 important because no one wants to lug clubs for several blocks or through slush in the winter. \u2014 cleveland , 19 Apr. 2022",
"So, before dawn on a Friday in February, the pair set out through the slush to conquer that stub of concrete on the fringes of the city limits, pausing only to take a few photos and return a runaway shopping cart to a Walmart corral. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Or New York City, where snow falls beautifully one morning, blanketing everything in an innocent, downy layer that is quickly turned to an evil brown slush that splatters all over everything and dissolves into disgusting gritty puddles. \u2014 Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"So one misstep can turn a team\u2019s championship dreams to slush . \u2014 Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Plow driver fired: A snowplow driver has been fired after his plow threw snow and slush onto the opposite side of the Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky, damaging 55 vehicles, Olivia Mitchell reports. \u2014 cleveland , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Shoes made with Gore-Tex, eVent or other proprietary waterproof liners do a good job of keeping rain, snow and slush away from your feet and helping your toes stay relatively warm and dry. \u2014 Brian Metzler, Outside Online , 1 July 2019",
"Beneath the dossier\u2019s journey from media obsession to slush pile lies a broader and more troubling story. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2021",
"Kevin Nye attended the Juneau Trump rally, where vehicles, some decked with U.S. flags or banners supporting Trump, lined up Sunday to parade through town as the streets turned to slush from the snow and rain. \u2014 Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News , 3 Nov. 2020",
"When the bathrooms began flooding, the manager decided the night was canceled, and fans begrudgingly slushed their way out. \u2014 Nellie Bowles, New York Times , 11 Mar. 2020",
"Normally at this time of year lake effect is cut dramatically because of ice cover on the Great Lakes and open water slushing up. \u2014 Mark Torregrossa | Mtorregr@mlive.com, cleveland , 12 Feb. 2020",
"Extreme weather can overpower the freezing point of the washer fluid, turning it to slush on your windshield. \u2014 Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics , 15 May 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"circa 1642, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"1807, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-175905"
},
"sly":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": wise in practical affairs",
": displaying cleverness : ingenious",
": clever in concealing one's aims or ends : furtive",
": lacking in straightforwardness and candor : dissembling",
": lightly mischievous : roguish",
": in a manner intended to avoid notice",
": both clever and tricky",
": tending to keep secrets and hide intentions",
": mischievous sense 2",
": so as not to be seen or caught : secretly"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u012b",
"\u02c8sl\u012b"
],
"synonyms":[
"artful",
"beguiling",
"cagey",
"cagy",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"cute",
"designing",
"devious",
"dodgy",
"foxy",
"guileful",
"scheming",
"shrewd",
"slick",
"subtle",
"tricky",
"wily"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"guileless",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"undesigning"
],
"examples":[
"the movie pairs a sly , dissembling ex-con with an upstanding, straight-arrow cop",
"why, you sly fellow! I had no idea you were planning my birthday party",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Louise, the youngest, is a study in heated responses, sly manipulations and 9-year-old narcissism. \u2014 Michael Cavna, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"But the sly pleasure of Sick of Myself is that Signe\u2019s narcissism differs from the rest of ours more in degree than kind. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"In a sly stroke, we are never shown the encounter that led to Anne\u2019s condition. \u2014 The New Yorker , 6 May 2022",
"The bestselling author and humorist holds court for an evening of wry anecdotes and sly observations, and will also take part in a book signing after the show. \u2014 Matt Cooperlistings Coordinator, Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
"In her suite of seven sly dances, Krausas, who is a Canadian-American Los Angeles composer of Lithuanian heritage, lightly waltzes around and toys with fanciful passages from the Bulgakov\u2019s novel. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Both Justin Turner and Roberts had a sly look when asked about the third baseman\u2019s slow start this season. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"And for Nosferatu fans, there\u2019s a sly F.W. Murnau joke. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Bit\u2019s classmates and also, in a sly subversion, her grandparents, but Gold and Myers make stiff impersonations of elders. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sleighe, sli , from Old Norse sl\u0153gr ; akin to Old English sl\u0113an to strike \u2014 more at slay ",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-221826"
},
"slaphappy":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": punch-drunk",
": buoyantly or recklessly carefree or foolish : happy-go-lucky"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slap-\u02ccha-p\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"carefree",
"debonair",
"devil-may-care",
"gay",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome",
"unconcerned"
],
"antonyms":[
"careworn"
],
"examples":[
"We were all a bit slaphappy after staying up all night to finish the report.",
"She has a slaphappy attitude about her work."
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1936, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-184112"
},
"sluice":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow",
": a body of water pent up behind a floodgate",
": a dock gate : floodgate",
": a stream flowing through a floodgate",
": a channel to drain or carry off surplus water",
": a long inclined trough usually on the ground",
": such a contrivance paved usually with riffles to hold quicksilver for catching gold",
": to draw off by or through a sluice",
": to wash with or in water running through or from a sluice",
": to drench with a sudden flow : flush",
": to transport (logs) in a sluice",
": to pour as if from a sluice",
": a man-made channel for water with a gate for controlling its flow or changing its direction",
": a device for controlling the flow of water",
": a sloping trough for washing ore or for floating logs",
": to wash in a stream of water running through a sluice",
": flush entry 3 sense 2 , drench"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00fcs",
"\u02c8sl\u00fcs"
],
"synonyms":[
"flush",
"irrigate",
"rinse",
"wash",
"wash out"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"he sluiced the gutters with lots of water in order to make sure they were clear",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"It is thought that water was once carried through this sluice in terra-cotta pipes. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"An emergent mining technique involved shovelling gravel and dirt into an open-ended trough, called a sluice box, then running water over it. \u2014 David Owen, The New Yorker , 11 May 2022",
"To protect the historic structure until work can resume, INAH will cover the tunnel\u2019s artworks, which appear on a sluice gate used by the city\u2019s early colonial government, with soil, reports Isaac Schultz for Gizmodo. \u2014 Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine , 29 July 2021",
"To tunnel under walkways, attach a pointed sluice nozzle to a length of PVC pipe. \u2014 Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics , 25 June 2021",
"Seven Springs Gem Mining, featuring geology and nature lessons where amethyst, rose quartz, emerald and other crystals can be found using a sifting tray in the sluice . \u2014 Megan Swift, USA TODAY , 12 June 2021",
"That date, a watershed of life, not just of hers, the sluice gate of a dam on the river that blocks the waters\u2019 flow. \u2014 Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine , 25 May 2021",
"Or, slice the leeks lengthwise and hold the cut sides under a tap, letting the cascade of water sluice away the dirt. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2021",
"Save the Vaal Environment believes that the opening of sluice gates at the Vaal Dam in February has facilitated the rapid spread of water lettuce downstream, damaging aquatic life along the way. \u2014 Tawanda Karombo, Quartz Africa , 28 Feb. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The public became aware of the matter after U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced last week that Smith concocted a kick-back scheme to sluice $70,000 from his re-election account between 2012 and 2019. \u2014 M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press , 19 Sep. 2020",
"Markets are often watery because they are sluiced down, or because of the melting of the ice used to stop food from spoiling. \u2014 The Economist , 26 May 2020",
"The water sluicing down the rocks is glitter and mist. \u2014 Seija Rankin, EW.com , 22 Jan. 2020",
"The precious metal is washed out of the dirt with which it is mixed by a panning, sluicing or washing process in the river below. \u2014 Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times , 25 Sep. 2019",
"Even in an era when industrial-scale mining has been introduced in the region, independent gold miners are still digging and sluicing in the nearby Klondike Valley, using excavators and diesel pumps, as well as shovels and gold pans. \u2014 Smithsonian , 24 Oct. 2019",
"Or simply girls like herself raised to womanhood in the Midwest, beside a steel mill, in a small house obsessively painted and sluiced with Fels-Naptha as though at any moment they might be forced to leave. \u2014 The Economist , 15 Aug. 2019",
"Needing to catch fire Friday, despite teeing off in sluicing rain, the four-time major champion hunkered down to the task. \u2014 Rob Hodgetts, CNN , 19 July 2019",
"Here is the birria de res of my life: juicy but slightly crisped, decorated only with diced, raw white onion, and sluiced in a furious salsa de guajillo. \u2014 Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times , 31 July 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"1596, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-220300"
},
"sleepy":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": ready to fall asleep",
": of, relating to, or characteristic of sleep",
": sluggish as if from sleep : lethargic",
": having little activity",
": sleep-inducing",
": ready to fall asleep : drowsy",
": not active, noisy, or busy",
": ready to fall asleep"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0113-p\u0113",
"\u02c8sl\u0113-p\u0113",
"\u02c8sl\u0113-p\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"dozy",
"drowsy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somnolent"
],
"antonyms":[
"alert",
"awake",
"conscious",
"wakeful",
"wide-awake"
],
"examples":[
"She felt sleepy and went to bed.",
"the sleepy children were carried up to bed",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Over in Shevchenkove, a sleepy village four miles up the road toward Mykolaiv, more than two-thirds of the people have disappeared, said Father Pavlo, the priest presiding over St. John Church. \u2014 Nabih Bulosstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Near Cancun, explore the sleepy fishing village of Puerto Morelos or the haute, bohemian design of Tulum. \u2014 Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Indio is a desert, and Rio a tropical beach paradise; Rio a bustling metropolis of nearly 7 million people, and Indio, for most of the year, a sleepy small town. \u2014 Griselda Flores, Billboard , 11 May 2022",
"Many report feeling sleepy , confused, anxious, or agitated for hours after the fact. \u2014 Patti Greco, Health.com , 9 Nov. 2021",
"But the site technology is sleepy , slow and frustrating. \u2014 Lana Bortolot, Forbes , 28 Oct. 2021",
"In short, products that make people feel relaxed, happy, sleepy , sociable or giddy remain wildly popular across generations. \u2014 Nancy A Shenker, Rolling Stone , 11 Oct. 2021",
"This long-running British favorite about an abrasive London surgeon who leaves his practice behind to become the GP of a sleepy seaside town delivers both in spades. \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 8 May 2022",
"And the party is embarking on the effort in an off-year for national elections, an often sleepy time with a disengaged electorate and a recharging political base. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 8 June 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-233425"
},
"sleight":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": deceitful craftiness",
": stratagem",
": dexterity , skill"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"device",
"dodge",
"fetch",
"flimflam",
"gambit",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"juggle",
"knack",
"play",
"ploy",
"ruse",
"scheme",
"shenanigan",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"wile"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"must have employed some sophisticated sleight to con that wary couple out of their money",
"a brilliant new theory that pays tribute to his remarkable sleight of mind",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Bossy spun his gold more off the rush, skating into shots, picking apart goalies victimized by his sleight -of-stick magic. \u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com , 16 Apr. 2022",
"The economist pointed to the sleight -of-hand in one of the central elements in Macron\u2019s 2022 platform: a proposal to raise the legal age of retirement to 65. \u2014 Arthur Goldhammer, The New Republic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Reading scenes as the tough and self-destructive Sammy, who learns to channel her grief and anger over her mother\u2019s death into creativity through sleight -of-hand magic, Cech slipped effortlessly into the character. \u2014 Jen Yamatostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
"Almighty skating and sleight -of-hand playmaking can, in an instant, give way to manhandling opposing players. \u2014 New York Times , 3 May 2022",
"On Brighten, the sleight -of-hand man does his most robustly soulful singing and playing, with the whole band kicking in for an all-together-now groove. \u2014 Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Of course, if this apparent sleight -of-hand by Macron -- carving a separate path forward for Europe -- leads to placing any kind of restraint on Putin's more bellicose ambitions, all the better. \u2014 David A. Andelman, CNN , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Nottage employs a bit of narrative sleight -of-hand, with only the most opaque of acknowledgments of the accusations to emerge later. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Feb. 2022",
"That\u2019s the first of two sleight -of-hand tricks Baker is pulling here. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 6 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Old Norse sl\u0153gth , from sl\u0153gr sly \u2014 more at sly ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-121303"
},
"slander":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"transitive verb",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to utter slander against : defame",
": the utterance of false charges or misrepresentations which defame and damage another's reputation",
": a false and defamatory oral statement about a person \u2014 compare libel",
": to make a false and damaging statement against",
": a false statement that damages another person's reputation",
": to utter slander against",
": defamation of a person by unprivileged oral communication made to a third party",
": defamatory oral statements",
": the tort of oral defamation",
"\u2014 compare defamation , false light , libel"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slan-d\u0259r",
"\u02c8slan-d\u0259r",
"\u02c8slan-d\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"asperse",
"blacken",
"calumniate",
"defame",
"libel",
"malign",
"smear",
"traduce",
"vilify"
],
"antonyms":[
"aspersing",
"blackening",
"calumniation",
"calumny",
"character assassination",
"defamation",
"defaming",
"libel",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"smearing",
"traducing",
"vilification",
"vilifying"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"She was accused of slandering her former boss.",
"Noun",
"She is being sued for slander .",
"He was a target of slander .",
"We've heard countless unsupported slanders about her.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"While the campaign to slander FDR\u2019s intraparty antagonist started to unfold, the president was trying to protect one of his closest advisers from the same charge. \u2014 James Kirchick, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"The station broadcast across the Midwest, and Baker used its considerable reach, along with a print publication, to promote his cure, slander his personal enemies, and denigrate the mainstream medical establishment. \u2014 The New Yorker , 26 Apr. 2022",
"As an obvious first element, there must be a statement, which can either be in writing (libel) or spoken ( slander ). \u2014 Schuyler Moore, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Or a person who knows how fast rumors spread on social media and decides not to slander someone on Facebook or Twitter or TikTok, whatever that is. \u2014 Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al , 27 Apr. 2022",
"In attempting to slander her, Republican senators may also have done damage in the broader area of criminal-justice reform, dismissing all notions of judicial discretion and proportionality, let alone rehabilitation. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 9 Apr. 2022",
"And the same pundits and politicians who have spent two years attempting to ostracize and slander anyone who opposed their mandates are now deeply upset by some gentle prodding. \u2014 David Harsanyi, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
"But Kalb wasn\u2019t the only cheftestant to slander queso\u2019s good name. \u2014 Lauren Mcdowell, Chron , 10 Mar. 2022",
"And for most of that time Americans have subjected the birds to slander , torture, and mass slaughter. \u2014 Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 2016 -- before he was elected to the County Commission -- Eaton was one of four community activists the landfill\u2019s previous owners sued for libel and slander , seeking $30 million in damages. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 13 Jan. 2022",
"According to WalletHub, umbrella insurance also covers a wide range of scenarios such as libel and slander , false arrest, personal psychological harm and mental anguish, and malicious prosecution. \u2014 Hiranmayi Srinivasan, Better Homes & Gardens , 5 Nov. 2021",
"One alleges slander and false statements made by Becerra, his family and friends made on social media. \u2014 Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News , 2 Mar. 2022",
"These days Twitter is largely a festival of lies and self-referential light slander coated with a bunch of crazy anonymous people threatening to kill your dog. \u2014 Heather Wilhelm, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"One alleges slander and false statements made by Becerra, his family and friends. \u2014 Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Kebe is liable on two counts of slander , one count of libel, and one count of invasion of privacy, granting Cardi $1 million in damages for pain & suffering due to reputational damages, and $250,000 in medical expenses. \u2014 Rivea Ruff, Essence , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Cultural slander such as this occurs only when deceit and falsehood become the cultural record. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 20 Oct. 2021",
"According to court documents, the jury found in favor of Walmart on other claims of false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and slander . \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 29 Nov. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-131445"
},
"slickness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": having a smooth surface : slippery",
": having surface plausibility or appeal : glossy",
": based on stereotype : trite",
": characterized by subtlety or nimble wit : clever",
": wily",
": deft , skillful",
": extremely good : first-rate",
": sleek sense 1",
": to make sleek or smooth",
": spruce",
": something that is smooth or slippery",
": a smooth patch of water covered with a film of oil",
": a film of oil",
": an automobile tire made without a tread for maximum traction (as in drag racing)",
": an implement for producing a smooth or slick surface",
": a shrewd untrustworthy person",
": a popular magazine printed on coated stock and intended to appeal to sophisticated readers",
": a military helicopter without armaments that is used to transport troops or light cargo",
": in a smooth or clever manner",
": to make sleek or smooth",
": having a smooth surface : slippery",
": tricky sense 2",
": having skill and cleverness"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slik",
"\u02c8slik"
],
"synonyms":[
"greased",
"greasy",
"lubricated",
"oiled",
"slicked",
"slippery",
"slippy",
"slithery"
],
"antonyms":[
"grease",
"lubricate",
"oil",
"wax"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Butler, Warren and Clinton counties will see quick periods of snowfall Sunday that could result in slick roadways and low visibility for drivers. \u2014 Kaitlin Lewis, The Enquirer , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Motorists are advised to stay home due to slick roadways. \u2014 David Wickert, ajc , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Rain on top of snow could create slick roadways and complicate the Friday morning commute, O\u2019Brien said. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 13 Jan. 2022",
"For the second time in a week, snow hit the D.C. region early Friday, forcing area schools and the federal government to close and leaving slick roadways and sidewalks. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Jan. 2022",
"With slick roadways still possible, the Virginia Department of Transportation said drivers should avoid unnecessary travel overnight and on Wednesday morning. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Travelers and commuters should prepare for delays caused by slick roadways and ponding water, forecasters said. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Dec. 2021",
"Fury credits lead trainer SugarHill Steward with infusing his slick style with an aggressive Kronk Gym gear. \u2014 Anthony Stitt, Forbes , 7 Oct. 2021",
"Middlebrooks notes the former simply helps pitchers get a better grip on what's a pretty slick baseball and can actually protect batters from getting plunked, while the latter has been found to dramatically increase spin rate. \u2014 Tim O'donnell, The Week , 15 June 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Brush off those grill grates to remove any stuck on bits, and use a paper towel, tongs, and a neutral oil to slick them up so your burgers don't stick. \u2014 Mehreen Karim, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
"The terrain varied from rough limestone-shale fields to swampy singletrack to slick red sandstone. \u2014 Patty Hodapp, Outside Online , 28 May 2022",
"The wig application took about 40 minutes, Ballard says, while Biel's hair was completely flattened with GafQuat, a strong hold pomade used to slick hair back. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 17 May 2022",
"The best part: The crampon-like aluminum bars stick to slick rock like Velcro. \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 17 Apr. 2015",
"And fastening them to slick hides requires massive pins that may harm the animals. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Then, Raleigh would slick down and paint over Owen\u2019s bushy eyebrows and glue the prosthesis on with silicone adhesive. \u2014 Dan Reilly, Vulture , 21 Oct. 2021",
"For those rocking shorter hair, pomades are an excellent styling product that can shape and slick down hair with ease. \u2014 Sarah Han, Allure , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Better to slick it with oil before cooking to crisp it up, then brush with a flavorful glaze. \u2014 Beth Dooley Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune , 16 June 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Drivers faced challenges as rain fell before and during the race, making the track slick and wet. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 June 2022",
"After Shesterkin denied Arthur Kaliyev in the sixth round, Fox roofed a slick backhand that stuck in the net to win it. \u2014 Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times , 25 Jan. 2022",
"As for the rest of her face, cheeks were kept soft with washes of nude pink and peach, while lips were enhanced with a slick of warm matte pink, usually L'Oreal Colour Riche Lipstick in Fairest Nude. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Balls used in Japan have a slightly tacky surface, so no need for mudding, nor for pitchers to use resin to kill the slick . \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 May 2022",
"In addition to some makeup essentials, such as filling in her brows, applying mascara, and a slick of lip gloss, Boru always tries to get henna done just before Eid. \u2014 Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com , 1 May 2022",
"This whole project has been a fun way to go about my pantry, finding value where others only see a murky slick destined for the dump. \u2014 Maggie Lange, Bon App\u00e9tit , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Then, in 2018, a toxic algae bloom the size of Connecticut turned the Florida Gulf Coast into a slick of dead fish. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 11 Apr. 2022",
"But the Hawks turned away the Ducks rally when Kane made a slick backhand pass to a streaking Strome for his 14th goal with 5:10 left in the second. \u2014 Jay Cohen, chicagotribune.com , 9 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4",
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense",
"Noun",
"1849, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Adverb",
"1825, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-190432"
},
"slushy":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": being, involving, or resembling slush : such as",
": full of or covered with slush",
": made up of or having the consistency of slush",
": having a cheaply sentimental quality",
": a drink made of flavored ice crystals",
": covered with or resembling partly melted snow"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0259-sh\u0113",
"\u02c8sl\u0259-sh\u0113",
"\u02c8sl\u0259-sh\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"miry",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"oozy",
"slimy",
"sludgy"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"the slushy racetrack resulted in a significantly slower time for the winning horse",
"slushy music underscores the movie's emotional scenes",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The aluminum hull glided like an air-hockey puck over the smooth sections of snow and ice and, where necessary, bull-dogged through slushy areas. \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 23 Jan. 2022",
"The cold, dirty, wet stuff that immediately forms a deep, slushy crevasse on every corner. \u2014 Claire Friedman, The New Yorker , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Snow in trace amounts or up to an inch is likely, with slushy conditions on the roads, the forecast says. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 Apr. 2022",
"After a quick slushy spasm, 50s will return into next week. \u2014 Star Tribune , 10 Apr. 2021",
"Pluto\u2019s average temperature is a brisk minus 387 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 232 degrees Celsius), so any slushy eruptions would likely retain their shape on the dwarf planet\u2019s surface. \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Mother\u2019s Ruin opened Friday in Avondale and offers creative slushy cocktails and hearty food, like hot and crispy waffle fries, with a simplified approach: Everything is ordered at the bar. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Next, Flores pops open a barrel-sized container filled with a slushy brown liquid. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"As temperatures fall well below freezing, the slushy mix on the ground will freeze, and a drier accumulating snow will fall on top of the icy surface and come to an end Saturday morning. \u2014 Brook Endale, The Enquirer , 12 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"1791, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"1966, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-190534"
},
"sleek":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": slick",
": to cover up : gloss over",
": slick",
": smooth and glossy as if polished",
": having a smooth well-groomed look",
": healthy-looking",
": smooth in speech or manner",
": unctuous",
": having a prosperous air",
": having trim graceful lines",
": elegant , stylish",
": smooth and glossy as if polished",
": having a healthy well-groomed look",
": straight and smooth in design or shape",
": stylish and elegant"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0113k",
"\u02c8sl\u0113k"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffed",
"burnished",
"glistening",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"satin",
"satiny"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"flat",
"lusterless",
"matte",
"mat",
"matt"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"the sleek lines of a sports car",
"a striking beauty with sleek raven hair",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"With a combination of hydrating and nourishing oils, this product can be used in so many ways, either as a scalp treatment, a body oil, or to sleek down any frizz. \u2014 ELLE , 21 May 2022",
"This acacia lounger has sleek Scandinavian lines, high armrests, and an all-weather cushion, plus there's a pull-out table that extends to the left or right, just big enough to keep a refreshment and entertainment on standby. \u2014 Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics , 16 May 2022",
"Because of the minimalist design of Tesla cars, this change would be simple and the result fairly sleek . \u2014 Brad Templeton, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2022",
"The Ease of the Cool-Girl Clog Even on casual days, Parker always looks pulled together, thanks to sleek on-trend accessories\u2014like these chunky clogs. \u2014 Alexis Bennett, Vogue , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Will sleek new scenery and a new star, Aaron Paul, be enough to win back those put off by the show\u2019s convoluted story? \u2014 Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times , 11 Mar. 2020",
"Opt for these whimsical pearls to sleek gold finds in sculptural shape. \u2014 James Love, Essence , 18 Dec. 2019",
"From bright, bold colors and printed knapsacks to sleek leather pieces, there's an option for any type of personality and style. \u2014 Teen Vogue , 5 Aug. 2019",
"From high- and low-waist bikinis to sleek one-pieces in colors like navy, red, black, and dusty pink, there's a little something for everyone. \u2014 Glamour , 30 Apr. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The set includes a knife, basting brush, spatula, tongs and a BBQ fork encased in a sleek and sturdy bamboo box that's easy to carry. \u2014 Noma Nazish, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"The sleek and modern trains were a source of optimism for riders who have grown weary of double-digit wait times amid the suspension of the series, which makes up 60 percent of Metro\u2019s fleet. \u2014 Justin George, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
"The Belkin MagSafe Car Mount is a sleek and minimal mount that's ideal for any iPhone user who uses MagSafe charging. \u2014 Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics , 15 June 2022",
"Fitbit's Luxe option has all the bells and whistle as the brand's other models, but its sleek and shiny design looks like jewelry. \u2014 Kelsey Mulvey, Men's Health , 15 June 2022",
"Her hair was styled sleek and straight, and her turquoise eyeshadow perfectly complemented her dress. \u2014 Alyssa Bailey, ELLE , 10 June 2022",
"The single serves as a departure from the French indie pop band\u2019s often sleek and stylish signature sound \u2014 which received the most refinement in previous albums Ti Amo and Bankrupt! \u2014 Jason Lipshutz, Billboard , 6 June 2022",
"The modern and sleek Property Records office featured big blocks of glass covered with colored gel, which disguised the art department\u2019s office in an adjoining room. \u2014 Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"The coffee maker features a sleek and modern design that our testers found to be functional and easy to use. \u2014 Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping , 28 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Adjective",
"1578, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-190838"
},
"slap":{
"type":[
"adverb",
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand",
": to cause to strike with a motion or sound like that of a blow with the open hand",
": to put, place, or throw with careless haste or force",
": to subject to a penalty",
": to assail verbally : insult",
": a blow with the open hand",
": a quick sharp blow",
": a noise like that of a slap",
": rebuff , insult",
": a gentle usually ineffectual reprimand",
": directly , smack",
": opening , breach",
": to strike with or as if with the open hand",
": to make a sound like that of slapping",
": to put, place, or throw with careless haste or force",
": a quick sharp blow especially with the open hand",
": a noise like that made by a blow with the open hand"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slap",
"\u02c8slap"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"strike",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
"zap"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun (1)",
"1606, in the meaning defined at sense 1b",
"Adverb",
"1672, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun (2)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-191544"
},
"sliver":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a long slender piece cut or torn off : splinter",
": a small and narrow portion",
": particle , scrap",
": an untwisted strand or rope of textile fiber produced by a carding or combing machine and ready for drawing, roving, or spinning",
": to cut into slivers : splinter",
": to become split into slivers",
": a long slender piece of something cut or torn off : splinter",
": a small amount",
": to cut or form into long slender pieces"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sli-v\u0259r",
"sense 2 is usually",
"\u02c8sli-v\u0259r",
"\u02c8sli-v\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"chip",
"flake",
"spall",
"splint",
"splinter"
],
"antonyms":[
"slice",
"splinter"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"I got a sliver of wood stuck in my finger.",
"Verb",
"carefully slivered the rattan stems into strips for basketry",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Crews live aboard these rafts for a sliver of profit from the dismantling of the Congo Basin rainforest, which is becoming increasingly vital as a defense against climate change as the Amazon is felled. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
"The money that that PG&E will pay as part of the settlements will account for a just sliver of its anticipated liabilities in the Kincade, Zogg and Dixie fires. \u2014 CBS News , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The money that that PG&E will pay as part of the settlements will account for a just sliver of its anticipated liabilities in the Kincade, Zogg and Dixie fires. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Apr. 2022",
"But there were also signs of a return to some sliver of a past life. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Apr. 2022",
"The policy, if enacted, would, for a sliver of the very wealthiest, close that escape hatch. \u2014 Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The Bears\u2019 guards kept fending off the Longhorns\u2019 attempts to penetrate, turning every half-court possession into a constant search for some sliver of space. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Of course, these investors only account for a single-digit sliver of total private equity raised last year. \u2014 Maria Aspan And Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune , 8 Feb. 2022",
"For a sliver of the price, homeowners can find rural beauty, rolling hills and lakes. \u2014 Hannah Selinger, WSJ , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. \u2014 Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune , 21 July 2021",
"Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. \u2014 Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune , 21 July 2021",
"Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. \u2014 Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune , 21 July 2021",
"Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. \u2014 Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune , 21 July 2021",
"Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. \u2014 Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune , 21 July 2021",
"Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. \u2014 Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune , 21 July 2021",
"Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. \u2014 Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune , 21 July 2021",
"Seed and sliver the peppers and drizzle with oil, vinegar and chopped fresh herbs to serve as a salad. \u2014 Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune , 21 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"1605, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-191905"
},
"slowdown":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a slowing down",
": a slowing down of business operations by employees"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u014d-\u02ccdau\u0307n",
"\u02c8sl\u014d-\u02ccdau\u0307n"
],
"synonyms":[
"braking",
"deceleration",
"downshift",
"letup",
"retardation"
],
"antonyms":[
"acceleration",
"hastening",
"quickening"
],
"examples":[
"The business had a slowdown after the holidays.",
"disease experts are encouraged by the recent slowdown in the spread of the virus",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that U.S. retail sales unexpectedly dropped 0.3% in May, yet another sign of an economic slowdown . \u2014 Benzinga, Detroit Free Press , 18 June 2022",
"The easing of industrial output added to signs of an economic slowdown . \u2014 Rina Torchinsky, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
"But, in the eyes of billionaire real estate developer Stephen M. Ross, managers who want to get people back in the office may get help from an unexpected source: the looming economic slowdown . \u2014 Nicholas Gordon, Fortune , 17 June 2022",
"In turn, people will have even less money to spend, reinforcing the economic slowdown . \u2014 Max Zahn, ABC News , 16 June 2022",
"In the previous twelve recessions, stocks have typically declined by 24%, so the S&P 500 is nudging closer to pricing in an economic slowdown . \u2014 Bill Stone, Forbes , 12 June 2022",
"Much of the crisis can be traced to the outbreak of Covid-19, which triggered an economic slowdown , mass layoffs and a halt to production. \u2014 New York Times , 10 June 2022",
"Now retailers will be watching worriedly for a economic slowdown or even a recession on the horizon, particularly if the Federal Reserve acts even more stringently to curb inflation. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 10 June 2022",
"Asian corporate bonds will soon be attractive for investors who believe an economic slowdown remains a way off, said Neeraj Seth, head of Asian credit at BlackRock Inc. in Singapore. \u2014 Ruth Carson And Harry Suhartono, BostonGlobe.com , 31 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1882, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-193515"
},
"slowpoke":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a very slow person",
": a very slow person"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u014d-\u02ccp\u014dk",
"\u02c8sl\u014d-\u02ccp\u014dk"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawler",
"dallier",
"dawdler",
"dragger",
"laggard",
"lagger",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"plodder",
"snail",
"straggler"
],
"antonyms":[
"speedster"
],
"examples":[
"We're going to be late if that slowpoke doesn't hurry up.",
"quit being such a slowpoke this morning, or you'll be late",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Part of adjusting to the chaotic aquatic environment is learning the code of how to swim around the slowpoke in front of you. \u2014 Laine Higgins, WSJ , 18 June 2021",
"Other cars will tend to try and go around the slowpoke , which can produce a cavalcade of potential near collisions as vehicles jockey back and forth. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 28 May 2021",
"Those other drivers frustrated by the slow acceleration driver might get angry at the slowpoke and take untoward actions at that driver. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 28 May 2021",
"One such slowpoke route is the M42, along 42nd Street, which cuts across Times Square, where the traffic continues to move along at a tortoise-like pace. \u2014 James Barron, New York Times , 11 Oct. 2019",
"An over-the-air update late last year enabled Navigate on Autopilot, which lets the car change lanes autonomously (with the driver's OK) and pass the occasional slowpoke . \u2014 Wired , 24 Sep. 2019",
"Yet the state\u2019s logic seems impeccable: Left-lane slowpokes can cause accidents by making other drivers angry and therefore reckless. \u2014 Joe Queenan, WSJ , 12 Apr. 2018",
"Yet the state\u2019s logic seems impeccable: Left-lane slowpokes can cause accidents by making other drivers angry and therefore reckless. \u2014 Joe Queenan, WSJ , 12 Apr. 2018"
],
"history_and_etymology":" slow entry 1 + poke annoyingly stupid person",
"first_known_use":[
"1847, in the meaning defined above"
],
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"type":[
"adjective"
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": heavy with sleep : sleepy",
": inducing slumber : soporific",
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"\u02c8sl\u0259m-b(\u0259-)r\u0259s"
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"alert",
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"conscious",
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"wide-awake"
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"parents putting their slumberous children to bed",
"the slumberous murmer of the wind in the trees"
],
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": a promiscuous person : someone who has many sexual partners",
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": an impudent girl : minx"
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"\u02c8sl\u0259t"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
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"definitions":[
": mistake",
": mischance",
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"\u02c8slip-\u02cc\u0259p"
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"blunder",
"bobble",
"boo-boo",
"boob",
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"clanger",
"clinker",
"error",
"fault",
"flub",
"fluff",
"fumble",
"gaff",
"gaffe",
"goof",
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"misstep",
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"stumble",
"trip"
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"blunder",
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"err",
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"fluff",
"foul up",
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"goof (up)",
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"trip"
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"We were late because of a slipup in the schedule.",
"the marketing director made sure there were no slipups for the important presentation",
"Verb",
"if you slip up in copying the data, the final result will of course be wrong",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Next in order is the AI Ethics washing which is a slipup . \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
"After the fourth or fifth slipup , Chris interrupted Khalilzad. \u2014 Michael Ames, The New Yorker , 7 Sep. 2021",
"Instead, the inning kept going, and Jace Peterson broke a 2-2 tie with a single off Jose Alvarez, a rare slipup for the lefty, who had been a magician of late. \u2014 John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 Sep. 2021",
"With so much of the global economy\u2014and global geopolitics\u2014suddenly rotating around it, however, the consequences of any slipup could be severe. \u2014 Jacky Wong, WSJ , 15 July 2021",
"Thought bubble: Biden\u2019s slipup in the heat of the moment shows he is concerned about throwing olive branches to the left in order to energize young people that dominate Sanders\u2019 base of support. \u2014 Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner , 16 Mar. 2020",
"The media sometimes calls these gaffes, or slipups . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 18 Sep. 2019",
"The media sometimes calls these gaffes, or slipups . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 18 Sep. 2019",
"The media sometimes calls these gaffes, or slipups . \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 18 Sep. 2019"
],
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"Noun",
"1854, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1909, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-024130"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": averse to activity or exertion : indolent",
": torpid",
": slow to respond (as to stimulation or treatment)",
": markedly slow in movement, flow, or growth",
": economically inactive or slow",
": slow in movement or reaction",
": markedly slow in movement, progression, or response"
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"\u02c8sl\u0259-gish",
"\u02c8sl\u0259-gish",
"\u02c8sl\u0259g-ish"
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"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"languid",
"leisurely",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slow",
"snail-paced",
"snaillike",
"tardy",
"unhurried"
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"barreling",
"bolting",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"careering",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"flying",
"hasty",
"hurrying",
"lightning",
"meteoric",
"quick",
"racing",
"rapid",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"snappy",
"speeding",
"speedy",
"swift",
"warp-speed",
"whirling",
"whirlwind",
"whisking",
"zipping"
],
"examples":[
"The game picked up after a sluggish start.",
"the sluggish pace of the project is worrisome",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Still, New York\u2019s experience of the last two years \u2014 from its sluggish response in March 2020 to its successful use of vaccine mandates the next year \u2014 will be studied for decades to come. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"For some people who have a sluggish initial response (5% to 15% of the overall population), a second round of three shots -- six vaccines in all -- is required to confer immunity. \u2014 Kent Sepkowitz, CNN , 24 Dec. 2021",
"The governor this year also called on all residents to voluntarily reduce their water usage by 15%, but early results indicated a sluggish response to that request. \u2014 Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times , 8 Dec. 2021",
"The reaction is happening weeks faster than the world\u2019s sluggish response to the delta variant. \u2014 Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Newark, once castigated and sued over its sluggish response to the problem, is being held up as a potential national model. \u2014 David Porter, ajc , 7 Nov. 2021",
"Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has come under fire for her sluggish response to the water crisis in the city of Benton Harbor. \u2014 Fox News , 22 Oct. 2021",
"Farid Roushdy, the authority\u2019s senior chief pilot, blamed weather and the ship\u2019s sluggish response to steering. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2021",
"Facebook's announcements come as the tech giant faces mounting criticism over their sluggish response to COVID-19 disinformation. \u2014 Dan Patterson, CBS News , 15 Mar. 2021"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-034701"
},
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"type":[
"noun, plural in form but singular in construction"
],
"definitions":[
": a sly tricky person",
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"\u02c8sl\u012b-\u02ccb\u00fcts"
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"first_known_use":[
"circa 1700, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-204245"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the act of killing a person : killing , murder"
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"\u02c8sl\u0101-i\u014b"
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"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-105342"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": jail , prison"
],
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"\u02c8sla-m\u0259r"
],
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"bastille",
"big house",
"bridewell",
"brig",
"calaboose",
"can",
"clink",
"cooler",
"coop",
"guardroom",
"hock",
"hold",
"hoosegow",
"jail",
"jailhouse",
"joint",
"jug",
"lockup",
"nick",
"pen",
"penitentiary",
"pokey",
"prison",
"quod",
"slam",
"stir",
"stockade",
"tolbooth"
],
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"examples":[
"the Mafia capo ultimately landed in the slammer on a conviction of income tax evasion",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Others involved in the investigation who took a plea deal were only put in the slammer for five to seven years. \u2014 Brian Moylan, Vulture , 6 Dec. 2021",
"He was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in the slammer . \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Voters may once have looked at those violations as business-as-usual for pols, but over time, the penalties have morphed from mere fines to slammer -time \u2014 and likelier to sway voters. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 26 Oct. 2021",
"For example: Four-term sheriff Lee Baca, now in a federal slammer for obstructing an FBI investigation into jail abuse, got both a master\u2019s and a doctorate in public administration from USC. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 Aug. 2021",
"Authorities claim Hickman played a central role as organizer, slammer and spotter, including pretending to be a witness to accidents staged by others. \u2014 John Simerman, NOLA.com , 5 Nov. 2020",
"The white-collar probe took on a dark specter in September, when Garrison, an allegedly prolific slammer , was shot dead at age 54 inside his apartment in the Gentilly neighborhood. \u2014 John Simerman, NOLA.com , 5 Nov. 2020",
"Hotel tycoon Leona Helmsley checked herself into the slammer in 1989 for tax mistakes. \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 2 Apr. 2021",
"That La Helmsley would go on to spend 21 months in the slammer for tax evasion should not distract us from the basic truth of her statement. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 24 Mar. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1952, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-110328"
},
"slump":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to fall or sink suddenly",
": to drop or slide down suddenly : collapse",
": to assume a drooping posture or carriage : slouch",
": to go into a slump",
": a marked or sustained decline especially in economic activity or prices",
": a period of poor or losing play by a team or individual",
": a downward slide of a mass of rock or land",
": to drop or slide down suddenly : collapse",
": slouch entry 2",
": to drop sharply",
": a big or continued drop especially in prices, business, or performance"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0259mp",
"\u02c8sl\u0259mp"
],
"synonyms":[
"depression",
"recession"
],
"antonyms":[
"boom"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"At the end of May, the team began to slump , losing three of four games to Gibraltar Carlson, Flat Rock and Grand Blanc. \u2014 Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press , 15 June 2022",
"Europe, dependent on imports of Russian diesel that are expected to slump because of sanctions, is particularly vulnerable. \u2014 Joe Wallace, WSJ , 13 May 2022",
"Simply cut them in half, remove the pit, oil them well and grill over medium-low heat unit the juice starts to bubble, the surface gets caramelized and the fruit begins to slump into a sweet, sloppy mess. \u2014 Mackensy Lunsford, USA TODAY , 27 May 2022",
"The company expects gaming revenue to slump in the current quarter compared with its most recent one, Ms. Kress said. \u2014 Asa Fitch, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"Stock futures are projecting another day of pain for Wall Street, with the major U.S. indexes poised to slump 1 percent or more at the opening bell as investors continue to agitate over rising costs that are weighing down businesses and consumers. \u2014 Taylor Telford, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
"The Ukrainian plant made 700 million beer bottles, jam jars and other containers last year, and without it, Vetropack\u2019s revenue is expected to slump 10 percent. \u2014 New York Times , 5 Apr. 2022",
"The development bank cut its 2022 growth forecast for East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region to 5% from 5.4%, and warned that growth could slump to 4% if conditions weaken further, trapping 6 million more people in poverty. \u2014 Laura He, CNN , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Bitcoin\u2019s tendency to move in tandem with technology stocks means the biggest cryptocurrency may slump to $30,000 by June, according to Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of crypto trading platform BitMEX. \u2014 Joanna Ossinger, Fortune , 11 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Jayson Tatum temporarily recovered from his Game 1 slump , but was eventually stymied in the third quarter. \u2014 New York Times , 5 June 2022",
"Strategists at BofA Global Research wrote in May that the Russell 2000 had already fallen much of the way toward its average decline in times of recession, while the S&P 500 had dropped about half as much as its average recession-era slump . \u2014 Karen Langley, WSJ , 1 June 2022",
"And following a difficult 2020, Ford began recovering from its COVID slump in 2021. \u2014 Marco Quiroz-gutierrez, Fortune , 26 May 2022",
"Panthers interim coach Andrew Brunette knows what his team must do to snap out of its power-play slump . \u2014 Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel , 17 May 2022",
"Schoop has the lowest batting average of the regulars in the lineup, at .154 across 28 games, but appears to be coming out of his slump . \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 10 May 2022",
"Tech, despite its recent slump , still makes up about 28% of the index. \u2014 Paul R. La Monica, CNN , 10 May 2022",
"Wall Street\u2019s lugubrious mood dragged into Friday, with the major U.S. indexes on track to extend their losses a day after registering their steepest slump since the beginning of the pandemic. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 May 2022",
"With or without Embiid in Game 3, Philadelphia will still have a former NBA MVP in James Harden, who needs to snap out of his slump . \u2014 Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic , 5 May 2022"
],
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"Verb",
"circa 1677, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1887, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-110643"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a promiscuous person : someone who has many sexual partners",
": an unclean or slovenly woman : slattern",
": an impudent girl : minx"
],
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"\u02c8sl\u0259t"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-111234"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to sleep lightly : doze",
": sleep",
": to be in a torpid, slothful, or negligent state",
": to lie dormant or latent",
": sleep",
": a light sleep",
": lethargy , torpor",
": sleep entry 1 sense 1",
": sleep entry 2 sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0259m-b\u0259r",
"\u02c8sl\u0259m-b\u0259r"
],
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"catnap",
"doze",
"nap",
"rest",
"sleep",
"snooze"
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"bed",
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"dozing",
"napping",
"repose",
"rest",
"resting",
"shut-eye",
"sleep",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"z's",
"zs"
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"she slumbered for hours while the train rolled on",
"slumbering restlessly in the tropical heat",
"Noun",
"She fell into deep slumber .",
"a toddler looking so innocent and peaceful in slumber",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"On two of Lindblad\u2019s newest polar vessels, the National Geographic Endurance and National Geographic Resolution, the company has introduced two first-of-its-kind igloos on the deck where guests can slumber with epic views. \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 20 Mar. 2022",
"Beauty sleep is a real thing, and Slip\u2019s Celestial Nights Gift Set can make someone\u2019s bedtime slumber that much better. \u2014 Kiana Murden, Vogue , 18 Nov. 2021",
"Two men, contorted and confined, slumber in a vitrine, a dress shoe on one man\u2019s head, a urinal on his hip, while his genitals peek out, as the two standing men, both pants-less, observe, compelling us to participate in this overt conversation. \u2014 Natasha Gural, Forbes , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Polls suggest the debate over mandates has helped to solve the greatest problem Newsom always faced in the recall: the risk that Democrats -- who outnumber Republicans in the state by about 2 to 1 -- would slumber through it. \u2014 Ronald Brownstein, CNN , 14 Sep. 2021",
"Think Anthropologie for trinkets, bedding, and other fabulous finds, Saatva and Avocado for all things slumber , Dyson to upgrade your appliance game, and so much more for less. \u2014 Amanda Randone, refinery29.com , 25 May 2021",
"Game notes: Despite solid pitching, the Tigers offense continues to slumber heading into the series finale. \u2014 Andrew Hammond, Detroit Free Press , 26 Apr. 2021",
"The highest guest lodge in the Eastern United States, LeConte is the park's only place to slumber wholly protected. \u2014 Tracey Minkin, Southern Living , 9 Mar. 2021",
"Dormice prefer to slumber in the hollows of old trees\u2014and centuries of timber harvesting have stripped many of them from countries such as Poland, Belarus, Latvia, and Lithuania. \u2014 Jason Bittel, Animals , 28 Dec. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In addition to tracking your every step, slumber , and sweat session, this model has a generous display, Bluetooth connectivity, and over six days of battery life. \u2014 Kelsey Mulvey, Men's Health , 15 June 2022",
"Last year, millions of Brood X cicadas emerged after a 17-year slumber in parts of the eastern United States, and now a few of the sleepy stragglers could be reemerging, including in Louisville. \u2014 Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
"A year after billions of Brood X cicadas emerged from a 17-year slumber , a few stragglers may crop up this month. \u2014 Emily Deletter, USA TODAY , 11 May 2022",
"A year after billions of Brood X cicadas emerged from a 17-year slumber , a few stragglers may crop up this month. \u2014 Emily Deletter, The Enquirer , 11 May 2022",
"And the lake itself was rising rapidly out of months of cold slumber . \u2014 Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 7 May 2022",
"Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has jolted Finland [and Sweden] out of their non-aligned slumber and made NATO membership inevitable. \u2014 Eric Tegler, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Yet even that tiny amount of light created a deficit of slow wave and rapid eye movement sleep, the stages of slumber in which most cellular renewal occurs, Zee said. \u2014 Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Nathan Mensah, after an offensive slumber , had 14 points on 6 of 7 shooting on Feb. 12 against Air Force. \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 21 Feb. 2022"
],
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"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
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],
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": having a smooth surface : slippery",
": having surface plausibility or appeal : glossy",
": based on stereotype : trite",
": characterized by subtlety or nimble wit : clever",
": wily",
": deft , skillful",
": extremely good : first-rate",
": sleek sense 1",
": to make sleek or smooth",
": spruce",
": something that is smooth or slippery",
": a smooth patch of water covered with a film of oil",
": a film of oil",
": an automobile tire made without a tread for maximum traction (as in drag racing)",
": an implement for producing a smooth or slick surface",
": a shrewd untrustworthy person",
": a popular magazine printed on coated stock and intended to appeal to sophisticated readers",
": a military helicopter without armaments that is used to transport troops or light cargo",
": in a smooth or clever manner",
": to make sleek or smooth",
": having a smooth surface : slippery",
": tricky sense 2",
": having skill and cleverness"
],
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"\u02c8slik",
"\u02c8slik"
],
"synonyms":[
"greased",
"greasy",
"lubricated",
"oiled",
"slicked",
"slippery",
"slippy",
"slithery"
],
"antonyms":[
"grease",
"lubricate",
"oil",
"wax"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"In a slick but engaging new film due on Netflix June 14, the star frames her struggles and triumphs against the backdrop of the 2020 Super Bowl. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 9 June 2022",
"About 126,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Catalina Channel, and the slick covers 8,320 acres, the Los Angeles Times reports. \u2014 Catherine Garcia, The Week , 4 Oct. 2021",
"That\u2019s especially true for a slick 8-pointer, a buck with four points on both antlers. \u2014 Matt Williams, Dallas News , 2 Oct. 2021",
"Butler, Warren and Clinton counties will see quick periods of snowfall Sunday that could result in slick roadways and low visibility for drivers. \u2014 Kaitlin Lewis, The Enquirer , 24 Jan. 2022",
"Motorists are advised to stay home due to slick roadways. \u2014 David Wickert, ajc , 17 Jan. 2022",
"Rain on top of snow could create slick roadways and complicate the Friday morning commute, O\u2019Brien said. \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 13 Jan. 2022",
"For the second time in a week, snow hit the D.C. region early Friday, forcing area schools and the federal government to close and leaving slick roadways and sidewalks. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Jan. 2022",
"With slick roadways still possible, the Virginia Department of Transportation said drivers should avoid unnecessary travel overnight and on Wednesday morning. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Brush off those grill grates to remove any stuck on bits, and use a paper towel, tongs, and a neutral oil to slick them up so your burgers don't stick. \u2014 Mehreen Karim, Bon App\u00e9tit , 21 June 2022",
"The terrain varied from rough limestone-shale fields to swampy singletrack to slick red sandstone. \u2014 Patty Hodapp, Outside Online , 28 May 2022",
"The wig application took about 40 minutes, Ballard says, while Biel's hair was completely flattened with GafQuat, a strong hold pomade used to slick hair back. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 17 May 2022",
"The best part: The crampon-like aluminum bars stick to slick rock like Velcro. \u2014 Joe Jackson, Outside Online , 17 Apr. 2015",
"And fastening them to slick hides requires massive pins that may harm the animals. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Then, Raleigh would slick down and paint over Owen\u2019s bushy eyebrows and glue the prosthesis on with silicone adhesive. \u2014 Dan Reilly, Vulture , 21 Oct. 2021",
"For those rocking shorter hair, pomades are an excellent styling product that can shape and slick down hair with ease. \u2014 Sarah Han, Allure , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Better to slick it with oil before cooking to crisp it up, then brush with a flavorful glaze. \u2014 Beth Dooley Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune , 16 June 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"TikToker Maria Zarkova has the perfect, speedy French tip manicure hack, involving applying a slick of white polish to the end of your finger and pressing your nail into it. \u2014 Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com , 27 Apr. 2022",
"At Miu Miu, makeup legend Pat McGrath further projected neon bright coral red pouts by adding a slick of clear gloss to vinyl\u2013and light-catching!\u2013effect. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 10 Mar. 2022",
"Drivers faced challenges as rain fell before and during the race, making the track slick and wet. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 June 2022",
"After Shesterkin denied Arthur Kaliyev in the sixth round, Fox roofed a slick backhand that stuck in the net to win it. \u2014 Houston Mitchell Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times , 25 Jan. 2022",
"As for the rest of her face, cheeks were kept soft with washes of nude pink and peach, while lips were enhanced with a slick of warm matte pink, usually L'Oreal Colour Riche Lipstick in Fairest Nude. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Balls used in Japan have a slightly tacky surface, so no need for mudding, nor for pitchers to use resin to kill the slick . \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 6 May 2022",
"In addition to some makeup essentials, such as filling in her brows, applying mascara, and a slick of lip gloss, Boru always tries to get henna done just before Eid. \u2014 Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com , 1 May 2022",
"This whole project has been a fun way to go about my pantry, finding value where others only see a murky slick destined for the dump. \u2014 Maggie Lange, Bon App\u00e9tit , 26 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4",
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense",
"Noun",
"1849, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Adverb",
"1825, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-114205"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": subside , abate",
": to become slaked : crumble",
": to lessen the force of : moderate",
": satisfy , quench",
": to cause (a substance, such as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water : hydrate",
": quench sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0101k",
"intransitive sense 2 & transitive sense 3 are also",
"\u02c8sl\u0101k"
],
"synonyms":[
"assuage",
"quench",
"sate",
"satiate",
"satisfy"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"trying to slake his curiosity",
"a harrowing experience while mountain climbing has largely slaked my desire for high adventure",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But even an inch of water could slake the thirst of a few of her cows and maybe some wild elk and deer, too. \u2014 Erin Patrick O'connor, Washington Post , 14 May 2022",
"Others bore enough Heineken beer to slake the thirst of every adult in San Francisco for a year. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Luckily for those of us who are fired up about the discovery of the Endurance shipwreck, there is plenty to read and watch to slake our thirst for polar adventure and suffering. \u2014 Eva Holland, Outside Online , 30 Mar. 2022",
"New Englanders are blessed with abundant rainfall most years, enough to soak our soils and to slake our thirsts. \u2014 Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Among the film\u2019s most piercing scenes are a couple of doozies set in the local watering hole, where Leslie gravitates to slake her thirst and to escape the judgment of her grudging hosts. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Mar. 2022",
"That a bunch of boys will insincerely avalanche into girls sports in order to gain some competitive advantage, to slake some hearty thirst for winning? \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Not even the blood-thirstiest horror hounds will be able to slake their thirst for gore with this one. \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
"But nothing feels good about envy, nor is there any clear way to slake it. \u2014 Jennifer Senior, The Atlantic , 9 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Old English slacian , from sleac slack",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-120502"
},
"slackened":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to make less active : slow up",
": to make slack (as by lessening tension or firmness)",
": to become slack or slow or negligent : slow down",
": to become less active : slack",
": to make slower or less energetic",
": to make less tight or firm"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sla-k\u0259n",
"\u02c8sla-k\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"ease",
"loosen",
"relax",
"slack"
],
"antonyms":[
"strain",
"stretch",
"tense",
"tension",
"tighten"
],
"examples":[
"Sales show no sign of slackening .",
"As he began to relax, his grip on the steering wheel slackened .",
"The captain ordered us to slacken the sails.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Winds slacken somewhat Friday night with colder lows in the upper 30s to low 40s. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022",
"Winds should begin to slacken overnight as the high pressure begins to weaken east of the Cascades. \u2014 oregonlive , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Although the older variant is clinging on for dear life in a few pockets, its grasp will likely continue to slacken and slip under the weight of its craftier cousin. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 27 Jan. 2022",
"Heavy rain should slacken in the area by late morning as a warm front pushes the system north into British Columbia. \u2014 oregonlive , 12 Jan. 2022",
"Norway\u2019s power needs are usually largely met by a network of hydroelectric plants, but output can slacken when reservoirs run low. \u2014 New York Times , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Tomorrow night: Skies are mainly clear, and winds should slacken compared to the day. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 Dec. 2021",
"As winds also slacken , pretty much the whole area will dip to or below freezing tonight, with lows ranging from the mid-20s to low 30s. \u2014 Washington Post , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Once the front moves through, the winds should slacken , but travel may be difficult at times with stronger gusts and heavy rain. \u2014 oregonlive , 10 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-132602"
},
"slew":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a large number",
": to turn (something, such as a telescope or a ship's spar) about a fixed point that is usually the axis",
": to cause to skid : veer",
": to turn, twist, or swing about : pivot",
": skid"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00fc",
"\u02c8sl\u00fc"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He has written a slew of books.",
"we still have a slew of work to do on this project",
"Verb",
"He slewed the telescope three degrees south."
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1839, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"circa 1769, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-213811"
},
"slither":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface",
": to slip or slide like a snake",
": to cause to slide",
": glide entry 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sli-t\u035fh\u0259r",
"\u02c8sli-t\u035fh\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"belly",
"crawl",
"creep",
"grovel",
"slide",
"snake",
"worm",
"wriggle"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The snake slithered through the garden.",
"To get under the porch, I lay on my stomach and slithered like a snake.",
"She slithered quietly into the room.",
"He slithered his hand around her waist.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"They\u2019ve also been known to slither into residential areas in search of water or rodents to eat as drought conditions worsen. \u2014 Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed an autonomous, snakelike robot designed to slither down human lungs into places that are difficult for medical professionals to reach. \u2014 Washington Post , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The nematodes need moisture to slither around and into buds, but how are they being transported from forest to forest? \u2014 Peter Krouse, cleveland , 1 Apr. 2022",
"The big yellow machine casts up a brown blizzard of dust, adding to the trouble of seeing any small bodies attempting to run or slither for their lives. \u2014 Carolyn Wells, Longreads , 24 Mar. 2022",
"His vocals can howl, slither or croon, all with a bluesy fluidity and natural melodic sense. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 20 Jan. 2022",
"In a word, Ms. Maxwell\u2019s former partner, boss and lover draws the eye of the needle in this proceeding, through which Maxwell must slither , inevitably smaller. \u2014 Guy Martin, Forbes , 12 Dec. 2021",
"He's got massive shoulders and combines explosiveness out of gaps and lateral quickness that can slither his way around defenders. \u2014 Dana Scott, The Arizona Republic , 1 Oct. 2021",
"Baylor kept stacking the box, overwhelming Texas\u2019 line and barricading whatever lanes Robinson had hoped to slither through. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 30 Oct. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English slideren , from Old English slidrian , frequentative of sl\u012bdan to slide",
"first_known_use":[
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-233006"
},
"slue":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to turn (something, such as a telescope or a ship's spar) about a fixed point that is usually the axis",
": to cause to skid : veer",
": to turn, twist, or swing about : pivot",
": skid",
": position or inclination after slewing",
": skid sense 5"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00fc"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"and Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"circa 1860, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-005654"
},
"slatey":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of, containing, or characteristic of slate",
": gray like slate"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0101-t\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"argentine",
"gray",
"grey",
"grayish",
"leaden",
"pewter",
"silver",
"silvery",
"slate",
"steely"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"slaty stones in the riverbed"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1529, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-040818"
},
"slippery":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": causing or tending to cause something to slide or fall",
": tending to slip from the grasp",
": not firmly fixed : unstable",
": not precise or fixed in meaning : ambiguous , elusive",
": not to be trusted : tricky",
": having a surface smooth or wet enough to make holding onto or moving or standing on difficult",
": not to be trusted : tricky"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sli-p(\u0259-)r\u0113",
"\u02c8sli-p\u0259-r\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"furtive",
"shady",
"shifty",
"sly",
"sneaking",
"sneaky",
"stealthy"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The trails were muddy and slippery .",
"Fish are slippery to hold.",
"The sign cautions: \u201c Slippery when wet .\u201d",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Vo\u2019s hypnotic prose blends metaphor with magic so seamlessly that reality itself becomes slippery . \u2014 Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
"With its oceanfront swim-up suites and sparkly water park covered in slippery slides and slime, Nickelodeon was a vibe. \u2014 Essence , 15 June 2022",
"This kind of slippery -slope narrative can hardly help holding our attention, even if Rick does little to maximize its tension, keeping violence mostly off-screen and maintaining a pace that\u2019s far from taut. \u2014 Dennis Harvey, Variety , 15 June 2022",
"The novel\u2019s crucial and most deftly handled scene comes early when Mottley first explores the slippery continuum between rape and prostitution. \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 14 June 2022",
"As the project moves forward, the lake\u2019s water level must be lowered, leaving the boat launch ramps inaccessible, and exposing slippery , muddy banks that will be unsafe for public access, said Arian Collins, a city spokesperson, in an email. \u2014 Joe Tash, San Diego Union-Tribune , 22 May 2022",
"Testers unanimously rated the fabric smooth, yet not too slippery . \u2014 Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping , 17 May 2022",
"The foal, who would become Medina Spirit, was all legs and as slippery as a seal. \u2014 New York Times , 6 May 2022",
"Michael Peterson's slippery take on the truth Absolutely. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 2 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":" slipper entry 1 + -y entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1500, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-081723"
},
"sloshed":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": drunk , intoxicated"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00e4sht",
"\u02c8sl\u022fsht"
],
"synonyms":[
"besotted",
"blasted",
"blind",
"blitzed",
"blotto",
"bombed",
"boozy",
"canned",
"cockeyed",
"crocked",
"drunk",
"drunken",
"fried",
"gassed",
"hammered",
"high",
"impaired",
"inebriate",
"inebriated",
"intoxicated",
"juiced",
"lit",
"lit up",
"loaded",
"looped",
"oiled",
"pickled",
"pie-eyed",
"plastered",
"potted",
"ripped",
"smashed",
"sottish",
"soused",
"sozzled",
"squiffed",
"squiffy",
"stewed",
"stiff",
"stinking",
"stoned",
"tanked",
"tiddly",
"tight",
"tipsy",
"wasted",
"wet",
"wiped out"
],
"antonyms":[
"sober",
"straight"
],
"examples":[
"They were totally sloshed last night.",
"her idiot husband makes even less sense when he's sloshed"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1946, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-092020"
},
"slow":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": mentally dull : stupid",
": naturally inert or sluggish",
": lacking in readiness, promptness, or willingness",
": not hasty or precipitate",
": moving, flowing, or proceeding without speed or at less than usual speed",
": exhibiting or marked by low speed",
": not acute",
": low , gentle",
": requiring a long time : gradual",
": having qualities that hinder rapid progress or action",
": registering behind or below what is correct",
": less than the time indicated by another method of reckoning",
": that is behind the time at a specified time or place",
": lacking in life, animation, or gaiety : boring",
": marked by reduced activity",
": slowly",
": to make slow or slower : slacken the speed of",
": to go or become slower",
": moving, flowing, or going at less than the usual speed",
": taking more time than is expected or desired",
": not as smart or as quick to understand as most people",
": not active",
": indicating less than is correct",
": not easily aroused or excited",
": to go or make go less than the usual speed",
": in a slow way"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u014d",
"\u02c8sl\u014d"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"languid",
"leisurely",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"sluggish",
"snaillike",
"snail-paced",
"tardy",
"unhurried"
],
"antonyms":[
"laggardly",
"leisurely",
"pokily",
"slowly",
"sluggishly",
"tardily"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Bruner said that each workout takes 45 minutes, starting with a slow jog, then a group warmup involving push-ups, uphill sprints and squats. \u2014 Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel , 15 June 2022",
"Their erratic efforts to pursue other safety measures have been infrequent, and slow , and have often been rejected by the courts. \u2014 Thoai D. Ngo, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"The central bank is ramping up its drive to tighten credit and slow growth with inflation having reached a four-decade high of 8.6%, spreading to more areas of the economy and showing no sign of slowing. \u2014 Christopher Rugaber, ajc , 15 June 2022",
"Reaching up to 27 mph in our tests, this e-bike is anything but slow . \u2014 Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping , 15 June 2022",
"Although the Fed doesn\u2019t directly control consumer interest rates, its rate increases ripple through the economy and ultimately, hit businesses and consumers and slow demand and inflation. \u2014 Medora Lee, USA TODAY , 15 June 2022",
"The last update for Internet Explorer was in 2013, meaning the legacy browser has suffered a slow demise. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 15 June 2022",
"In the first year of SoLa ownership, orders to correct code violations were recorded at 60 buildings, and four of those cases were referred to hearings because of the slow response. \u2014 Doug Smithsenior Writer, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"Another factor was the international community\u2019s slow response. \u2014 Omar Faruk And Cara Anna, Anchorage Daily News , 8 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
"Algal blooms require sunlight, nutrients and slow -moving water to form. \u2014 Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press , 28 May 2022",
"Nighttime is when a lot of people prefer to jump, because there\u2019s less boat traffic passing underneath and therefore less chance of your crashing through the roof of a slow -moving cabin cruiser. \u2014 Charles Mcgrath, The New Yorker , 27 May 2022",
"The defensemen can\u2019t be expected to carry the offense, but 9 points vs. 21 underscores, in part, how the Hurricanes approached scoring as a five-man unit and how the Boston defensemen were the caboose on a slow -moving scoring train. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 May 2022",
"But both antitrust lawsuits and NCAA enforcement are notoriously slow -moving. \u2014 Ralph D. Russo, Chicago Tribune , 10 May 2022",
"The whisper-quiet, slow -moving conveyor system operates constantly, sifting the clumping litter of your choice to remove the waste, completing a full rotation each hour. \u2014 Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping , 9 May 2022",
"But there\u2019s a slow -moving campaign to change that \u2014 not by diminishing trolleys but by improving bus service and the coordination between the two. \u2014 Michael Smolenscolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022",
"Ayton seemed a step slow all night in allowing offensive rebounds and not handling the ball well in the paint. \u2014 Duane Rankin, USA TODAY , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Ayton seemed a step slow all night in allowing offensive rebounds and not handling the ball well in the paint. \u2014 Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic , 27 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"But Skubal's departure didn't slow down the Rangers' offense. \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 18 June 2022",
"The Alzheimer's drug crenezumab did not slow or prevent cognitive decline in a long-running study of Colombian families who carried a genetic mutation that put them at near certain risk to develop the mind-robbing disease. \u2014 Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY , 16 June 2022",
"The economy, however, could slow relatively quickly. \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"The Fed\u2019s goal of lowering inflation comes with a major risk: Pushing rates up could slow growth too much and too fast, leading the country into a recession. \u2014 Hamza Shaban, Anchorage Daily News , 16 June 2022",
"That said, if high inflation persists, then rising interest rates could slow down the job market. \u2014 David Westenhaver, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Apple's silicon typically performs well without a fan, but for extended heavy-duty workloads like rendering or video encoding, the Air's M1 does slow down over time to avoid overheating, while the Pro's M1 could keep running at top speed. \u2014 Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica , 14 June 2022",
"The intersection is a critical danger point: The Akatsiya must slow to nearly a stop to make the turn. \u2014 Mac William Bishop, Rolling Stone , 12 June 2022",
"Global economic growth will slow before the end of 2022, and most countries should begin preparing for a recession, the World Bank said in an economic forecast released Tuesday. \u2014 Grayson Quay, The Week , 8 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Adverb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1557, in the meaning defined at transitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-100502"
},
"slaver":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": drool , slobber",
": to smear with or as if with saliva",
": saliva dribbling from the mouth",
": a ship used in the slave trade",
": a person engaged in the slave trade",
": white slaver",
": drool",
": saliva dribbling from the mouth"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sla-v\u0259r",
"\u02c8sl\u0101-",
"\u02c8sl\u00e4-",
"\u02c8sl\u0101-v\u0259r",
"\u02c8slav-\u0259r",
"\u02c8sl\u0101v-",
"\u02c8sl\u00e4v-"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribble",
"drivel",
"drool",
"salivate",
"slobber"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"a dog slavering over a bone"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense",
"Noun (1)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun (2)",
"1827, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-100635"
},
"slogan":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a war cry especially of a Scottish clan",
": a word or phrase used to express a characteristic position or stand or a goal to be achieved",
": a brief attention-getting phrase used in advertising or promotion",
": a word or phrase used by a party, a group, or a business to attract attention"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u014d-g\u0259n",
"\u02c8sl\u014d-g\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[
"banner",
"catchphrase",
"cry",
"shibboleth",
"tagline",
"watchword"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"within days, virtually everyone was familiar with the newest advertising slogan for that brand of soda",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Again slogan , and his campaign website continues to include old video footage of Trump praising the north Alabama congressman. \u2014 Kim Chandler, ajc , 21 May 2022",
"The students were also asked to depict why conservation is so important and include an original slogan and conservation tips. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 June 2022",
"The slogan sparked awareness around the vulnerability women feel while out in public alone. \u2014 al , 6 June 2022",
"Tsodilo Hills in Botswana has often been referred to in the West by this catchy slogan . \u2014 Chadd Scott, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Speeches that matter include the exchanges integral to group activism, such as the addresses that daily fueled protest from 2020 through 2021 by Indian farmers\u2014speech that merges with song, slogan , and poetry, that is entwined with action. \u2014 Priya Satia, The New Republic , 20 May 2022",
"That\u2019s it \u2014 no bold slogan , just a four-digit number. \u2014 Jessica Testa, New York Times , 11 May 2022",
"The chants reclaim a popular slogan from the Cuban revolution, homeland or death. \u2014 Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY , 21 July 2021",
"In 2014 Slava Ukraini became the slogan of an independent, westward-looking Ukraine, when the Euromaidan protests resulted in the ousting of its president, Viktor Yanukovych, and his flight to Russia. \u2014 Magda Teter, The New York Review of Books , 25 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"alteration of earlier slogorn , from Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm , from sluagh army, host + gairm cry",
"first_known_use":[
"1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-103640"
},
"slave":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"geographical name",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a person held in forced servitude",
": a person who is completely subservient to a dominating influence",
": a device (such as the printer of a computer) that is directly responsive to another",
": drudge , toiler",
": to work very hard for long hours or under difficult conditions : drudge",
": to traffic in people to be sold into slavery",
": to make directly responsive to another mechanism",
": enslave",
": of, relating to, involving, or used for slavery or enslaved people",
": held in or forced into servitude : enslaved",
": favoring or legally permitting slavery",
": operated by remote control",
": responding to manipulation of the master controls of an apparatus",
": a person who is owned by another person",
": a person who is strongly influenced and controlled by something",
": drudge",
": to work very hard, for long hours, or under difficult conditions",
"river 258 miles (415 kilometers) long in Canada flowing from the western end of Lake Athabasca north into Great Slave Lake"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0101v",
"\u02c8sl\u0101v",
"\u02c8sl\u0101v"
],
"synonyms":[
"bondman",
"bondsman",
"chattel",
"thrall"
],
"antonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He's a slave to fashion trends.",
"Do it yourself! I'm not your slave !",
"Verb",
"I slaved all morning to get the work done on time.",
"She's been slaving away at her homework.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But the museum\u2019s opening is delayed until the end of the year and much of the tourism activity connected to the 2019 discovery of the Clotilda slave ship is on hold until then. \u2014 al , 31 May 2022",
"Members of the team assessing the sunken wreckage of the last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, are shown looking at timbers from the schooner near Mobile, Ala., on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. \u2014 CBS News , 12 May 2022",
"For some, like the Afropessimist scholar Christina Sharpe, the terrors of the slave ship\u2019s hold still shape Blackness. \u2014 Julian Lucas, The New Yorker , 4 May 2022",
"Experts have described the wreck as the most complete slave ship ever discovered. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 May 2022",
"Florida also banned teaching material from the 1619 Project, the New York Times\u2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning project to reframe American history around the date of August 1619, when the first slave ship arrived on America\u2019s shores. \u2014 Zoe Sottile, CNN , 17 Apr. 2022",
"Now singleminded of purpose, Amleth stows away on a slave ship headed for Iceland, where his uncle, no longer king in his old land, is a farmer who still wields power. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 11 Apr. 2022",
"By bringing to light the true story of the last slave ship, journalist Ben Raines documents the first steps toward reconciliation. \u2014 Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 Mar. 2022",
"And every Founder, slave -owner or not, stands more or less guilty of the one sin from which, in the post-Christian code of morality, there is no hope of redemption: white supremacy. \u2014 Barton Swaim, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The first wave of refugees was from the Darfur region of Sudan, followed by Eritreans escaping brutal military dictatorship and forced conscription that has been compared to slave labor. \u2014 Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 Jan. 2022",
"In other words, the founding fathers were well aware of the economic advantage to slave owners of limiting the Atlantic slave trade. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Change your scenery and let someone else slave over the stove. \u2014 Heidi Mitchell, WSJ , 19 Oct. 2021",
"Another school in Utah \u2014 Centennial Middle School in Provo \u2014 randomly assigned students to be slaves and slave masters for a project about the Civil War. \u2014 Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Dec. 2021",
"Born to slave parents in 1838 in Arkansas, Bass Reeves was a member of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. \u2014 Okla Jones, Essence , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Another school in Utah \u2014 Centennial Middle School in Provo \u2014 came under fire in the spring for randomly assigning students to be slaves and slave masters for a project about the Civil War. \u2014 Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Aug. 2021",
"Sampson presents a comprehensive view of the obstacles the young poet faced: illness, devastating personal losses, fluctuating family fortunes (which were tied to slave labor in Jamaica), and rigid cultural and social norms. \u2014 Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor , 23 Sep. 2021",
"Historians have noted that this harkens back to the Fugitive Slave laws of the 19th century, which offered cash incentives to white Americans to turn in their Black neighbors to slave catchers. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 9 Sep. 2021"
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1602, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2",
"Adjective",
"1576, in the meaning defined at sense 1b"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": the practice of slaveholding",
": the state of a person who is held in forced servitude",
": a situation or practice in which people are entrapped (as by debt) and exploited",
": submission to a dominating influence",
": drudgery , toil",
": the state of being owned by another person : bondage",
": the practice of owning slaves",
": hard tiring labor : drudgery"
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"\u02c8sl\u0101-v(\u0259-)r\u0113",
"\u02c8sl\u0101-v\u0259-r\u0113",
"\u02c8sl\u0101v-r\u0113"
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"bondage",
"enslavement",
"servility",
"servitude",
"thrall",
"thralldom",
"thraldom",
"yoke"
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"freedom",
"liberty"
],
"examples":[
"Frederick Douglass was central advocate for the abolition of slavery .",
"My dad put up with the slavery of working in the coal mines every day of his adult life.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lizzo wore shades of green, yellow, red, and black in commemoration of a holiday that celebrates the freedom and heritage of African Americans' emancipation from slavery . \u2014 Chelsea Avila, Allure , 21 June 2022",
"A day to celebrate the autonomy of our does and freedom from slavery . \u2014 Amy Haneline, USA TODAY , 20 June 2022",
"America could use a day of observance, to acknowledge the toil of our ancestors and the day some became aware of their freedom from slavery . \u2014 Malaika Jabali, Essence , 19 June 2022",
"In a nutshell, the origin story of Juneteenth dates back to 1865, underlining the widespread emancipation from slavery . \u2014 Simone E. Morris, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"For years, Black history in schools has jumped from slavery to Martin Luther King Jr.\u2014much of our narrative has been erased. \u2014 Robert Randolph, SPIN , 17 June 2022",
"In the Hebrew Bible, the Israelites who have been liberated from slavery are commanded to set up systems of care for the most socially marginalized. \u2014 Danya Ruttenberg, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
"Juneteenth is the celebration of freedom from slavery . \u2014 Carmen Dianne, Los Angeles Times , 14 June 2022",
"June 19 is Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, and is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the emancipation from slavery . \u2014 Genesis Malone, The Courier-Journal , 13 June 2022"
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"first_known_use":[
"1551, in the meaning defined at sense 3"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": slippery"
],
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"\u02c8sli-p\u0113"
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"greased",
"greasy",
"lubricated",
"oiled",
"slick",
"slicked",
"slippery",
"slithery"
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"examples":[
"bathtubs are a little too slippy for the elderly residents, so grab rails are standard fixtures"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1548, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
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": a dense fine-grained metamorphic rock produced by the compression of various sediments (such as clay or shale) so as to develop a characteristic cleavage",
": a tablet (as of slate) used for writing on",
": a written or unwritten record (as of deeds)",
": a list of candidates for nomination or election",
": a dark purplish gray",
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": to cover (something) with slate or a slatelike substance",
": to designate (someone or something) for a specified purpose or action occurring especially at a fixed time",
": to thrash or pummel severely",
": to criticize or censure severely",
": a fine-grained usually bluish gray rock that splits into thin layers or plates and is used mostly for roofing and blackboards",
": a framed piece of slate used to write on"
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"\u02c8sl\u0101t",
"\u02c8sl\u0101t"
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"examples":[
"Noun",
"Some school blackboards are made of slate .",
"The house has a slate roof."
],
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"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (1)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (2)",
"1825, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": heavy with sleep : sleepy",
": inducing slumber : soporific",
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"\u02c8sl\u0259m-b(\u0259-)r\u0259s"
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"dozy",
"drowsy",
"sleepy",
"somnolent"
],
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"alert",
"awake",
"conscious",
"wakeful",
"wide-awake"
],
"examples":[
"parents putting their slumberous children to bed",
"the slumberous murmer of the wind in the trees"
],
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to hit hard : beat",
": to plod (one's way) perseveringly especially against difficulty",
": to plod heavily : tramp",
": to work hard and steadily : plug",
": hard persistent work",
": a prolonged arduous task or effort",
": a hard dogged march or journey"
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"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00e4g"
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"bang",
"bash",
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"belt",
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"bludgeon",
"bob",
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"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
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"clock",
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"crack",
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"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
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"punch",
"rap",
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"slap",
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"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
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"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The trade-offs are even worse for super-commuters; in the US, roughly 10% of Americans slog through commutes of an hour or more each way. \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 9 June 2022",
"Because most flu vaccines need about six months to slog through the production pipeline, vaccine strains are selected at the end of winter and injected into arms the next fall. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Now visitors enter through the Sainsbury Wing and slog up the stairs to the Italian Renaissance rooms or down, down, down as deep as the deepest tube station to the temporary exhibition galleries. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Some clematis literally jump out of the ground the spring after they are planted whereas others slog along, taking several years to gear up. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Jan. 2022",
"As with most negotiations, this one has the potential to slog on until close to Opening Day, by which time some casual fans will have lost interest. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Faced with flagging support as the U.S. continues to slog through a pandemic and rising inflation, the president has treated infrastructure as proof that government can function again. \u2014 Josh Boak, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Orders in North America for robots are reaching record numbers as the U.S. economy continues to slog through a labor shortage fueled by the pandemic. \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 14 Nov. 2021",
"North Georgia just has to slog through one more wet day before things turn mainly dry for the weekend. \u2014 Chelsea Prince, ajc , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Until this week, the longest match of Alcaraz\u2019s young career had been a 4-hour, 18-minute slog at Wimbledon last year against the player then ranked No. 116 in the world, Yasutaka Uchiyama. \u2014 Joshua Robinson, WSJ , 26 May 2022",
"As coach of the basketball Rockets in the 12-team NBA, Jack McMahon endured a 15-67 (.185) slog in 1968. \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 Apr. 2022",
"A couple miles later, the rain started, as runners began to spread out on our slog up to the Pinnacle, a 4,000-vertical-foot climb in the first 12 miles of the race. \u2014 Brendan Leonard, Outside Online , 8 May 2020",
"The exchange comes as the war has settled into what seems increasingly destined to be a slog . \u2014 Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"Two and a half years into it, the 2020s have been a slog . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"That\u2019s because now, the fighting between Ukrainians and Russians is a slow slog . \u2014 Greg Palkot, Fox News , 27 May 2022",
"But the fighting there has been a back-and-forth, village-by-village slog . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 10 May 2022",
"That's a good guide to why these deals are such a slog . \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 25 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
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"Verb",
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"Noun",
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-202543"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a slovenly or boorish person",
": an ordinary person",
": a sloppy or lazy person",
": an ordinary person"
],
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"\u02c8sl\u00e4b",
"\u02c8sl\u00e4b"
],
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"sloven"
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"neatnik",
"old maid"
],
"examples":[
"Some poor slob got robbed.",
"a slob of a professor whose office was littered with a decade's worth of notes and student papers",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The apparently irresistible rise of the slob is hardly our most important problem. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 8 Jan. 2022",
"An exhibitionist and slob , who brought strange men to the house. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Oct. 2021",
"In the spot, Mayfield is a semi slob and has an annoying habit of singing the Oklahoma fight song in his sleep. \u2014 Bob Mcmanaman, The Arizona Republic , 16 Oct. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Annie Murphy plays Allison McRoberts, a standard-issue sitcom wife living a multi-cam sitcom life in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her dopey slob of a husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). \u2014 The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"This vainest of Falstaffs is a genuine slob whom Boritt houses in a shabby bachelor pad wallpapered in purple zebra stripes. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Aug. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Irish slab mud, ooze, slovenly person",
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"1861, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-213131"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
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": to hit hard : beat",
": to plod (one's way) perseveringly especially against difficulty",
": to plod heavily : tramp",
": to work hard and steadily : plug",
": hard persistent work",
": a prolonged arduous task or effort",
": a hard dogged march or journey"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The trade-offs are even worse for super-commuters; in the US, roughly 10% of Americans slog through commutes of an hour or more each way. \u2014 Sarah Todd, Quartz , 9 June 2022",
"Because most flu vaccines need about six months to slog through the production pipeline, vaccine strains are selected at the end of winter and injected into arms the next fall. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Now visitors enter through the Sainsbury Wing and slog up the stairs to the Italian Renaissance rooms or down, down, down as deep as the deepest tube station to the temporary exhibition galleries. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Some clematis literally jump out of the ground the spring after they are planted whereas others slog along, taking several years to gear up. \u2014 oregonlive , 23 Jan. 2022",
"As with most negotiations, this one has the potential to slog on until close to Opening Day, by which time some casual fans will have lost interest. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 1 Dec. 2021",
"Faced with flagging support as the U.S. continues to slog through a pandemic and rising inflation, the president has treated infrastructure as proof that government can function again. \u2014 Josh Boak, Anchorage Daily News , 15 Nov. 2021",
"Orders in North America for robots are reaching record numbers as the U.S. economy continues to slog through a labor shortage fueled by the pandemic. \u2014 Brett Molina, USA TODAY , 14 Nov. 2021",
"North Georgia just has to slog through one more wet day before things turn mainly dry for the weekend. \u2014 Chelsea Prince, ajc , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Until this week, the longest match of Alcaraz\u2019s young career had been a 4-hour, 18-minute slog at Wimbledon last year against the player then ranked No. 116 in the world, Yasutaka Uchiyama. \u2014 Joshua Robinson, WSJ , 26 May 2022",
"As coach of the basketball Rockets in the 12-team NBA, Jack McMahon endured a 15-67 (.185) slog in 1968. \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 Apr. 2022",
"A couple miles later, the rain started, as runners began to spread out on our slog up to the Pinnacle, a 4,000-vertical-foot climb in the first 12 miles of the race. \u2014 Brendan Leonard, Outside Online , 8 May 2020",
"The exchange comes as the war has settled into what seems increasingly destined to be a slog . \u2014 Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"Two and a half years into it, the 2020s have been a slog . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"That\u2019s because now, the fighting between Ukrainians and Russians is a slow slog . \u2014 Greg Palkot, Fox News , 27 May 2022",
"But the fighting there has been a back-and-forth, village-by-village slog . \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 10 May 2022",
"That's a good guide to why these deals are such a slog . \u2014 Shawn Tully, Fortune , 25 Apr. 2022"
],
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": notably slender"
],
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"\u02c8slim-\u02c8jim",
"-\u02ccjim"
],
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"fine",
"hairline",
"narrow",
"needlelike",
"paper-thin",
"skinny",
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"1889, in the meaning defined above"
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},
"slumber party":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
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],
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"examples":[
"My 12-year-old daughter is having a slumber party tonight.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Every day, there was something new to consume, and watching the members rehearse intricate dance moves, eat takeout, play video games, and gently bicker felt like eavesdropping on an endless slumber party . \u2014 E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker , 21 June 2022",
"With Shaggy actor Matthew Lillard serving as host, fans only need to pay $20 for a once-in-a-lifetime slumber party and a temporary gig with Mystery Inc. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 7 June 2022",
"And moving the 1996 California murder trial of Richard Allen Davis, who was convicted of killing 12-year-old Polly Klaas after kidnapping her from a slumber party , cost $687,000. \u2014 Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press , 24 May 2022",
"Alexia\u2019s plan to book her ideal wedding venue hits a snag; Lisa hosts a bawdy slumber party . \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2022",
"Svetlana was right: love wasn\u2019t a slumber party with your best friend. \u2014 Elif Batuman, The New Yorker , 18 Apr. 2022",
"While scrolling through Facebook, Cochran saw a post about Best Friends hosting a slumber party event that matched dogs with foster volunteers over the Labor Day weekend. \u2014 Janelle Jessen, Arkansas Online , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Kris Jenner wrote on Twitter alongside a hilarious clip of her and Richards' slumber party antics on Keeping Up with the Kardashians. \u2014 Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com , 11 Jan. 2022",
"Michelle needed a quiet regular date after all the commotion of the slumber party . \u2014 Ali Barthwell, Vulture , 10 Nov. 2021"
],
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"1925, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": wise in practical affairs",
": displaying cleverness : ingenious",
": clever in concealing one's aims or ends : furtive",
": lacking in straightforwardness and candor : dissembling",
": lightly mischievous : roguish",
": in a manner intended to avoid notice",
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": tending to keep secrets and hide intentions",
": mischievous sense 2",
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"\u02c8sl\u012b",
"\u02c8sl\u012b"
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"scheming",
"shrewd",
"slick",
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"artless",
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"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"undesigning"
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"examples":[
"the movie pairs a sly , dissembling ex-con with an upstanding, straight-arrow cop",
"why, you sly fellow! I had no idea you were planning my birthday party",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Louise, the youngest, is a study in heated responses, sly manipulations and 9-year-old narcissism. \u2014 Michael Cavna, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
"But the sly pleasure of Sick of Myself is that Signe\u2019s narcissism differs from the rest of ours more in degree than kind. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 May 2022",
"In a sly stroke, we are never shown the encounter that led to Anne\u2019s condition. \u2014 The New Yorker , 6 May 2022",
"The bestselling author and humorist holds court for an evening of wry anecdotes and sly observations, and will also take part in a book signing after the show. \u2014 Matt Cooperlistings Coordinator, Los Angeles Times , 4 May 2022",
"In her suite of seven sly dances, Krausas, who is a Canadian-American Los Angeles composer of Lithuanian heritage, lightly waltzes around and toys with fanciful passages from the Bulgakov\u2019s novel. \u2014 Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times , 12 May 2022",
"Both Justin Turner and Roberts had a sly look when asked about the third baseman\u2019s slow start this season. \u2014 Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"And for Nosferatu fans, there\u2019s a sly F.W. Murnau joke. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Bit\u2019s classmates and also, in a sly subversion, her grandparents, but Gold and Myers make stiff impersonations of elders. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English sleighe, sli , from Old Norse sl\u0153gr ; akin to Old English sl\u0113an to strike \u2014 more at slay ",
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-113006"
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"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb ()"
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": a place of deep mud or mire",
": swamp",
": an inlet on a river",
": backwater",
": a creek in a marsh or tide flat",
": a state of moral degradation or spiritual dejection",
": to engulf in a slough",
": to plod through or as if through mud : slog",
": the cast-off skin of a snake",
": a mass of dead tissue separating from an ulcer",
": something that may be shed or cast off",
": to become shed or cast off",
": to cast off one's skin",
": to separate in the form of dead tissue from living tissue",
": to crumble slowly and fall away",
": to cast off",
": to get rid of or discard as irksome, objectionable, or disadvantageous",
": to dispose of (a losing card in bridge) by discarding",
": a wet marshy or muddy place",
": dead tissue separating from living tissue",
": a mass of dead tissue separating from an ulcer",
": to separate in the form of dead tissue from living tissue",
": to cast off",
"town in Berkshire, southeast central England, west of London population 155,000"
],
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"\u02c8sl\u00fc",
"\u02c8slau\u0307",
"in the US (except in New England)",
"British usually",
"\u02c8sl\u0259f",
"\u02c8sl\u0259f",
"\u02c8sl\u00fc",
"\u02c8slau\u0307",
"\u02c8sl\u0259f",
"\u02c8slau\u0307"
],
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"Noun (1)",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb (1)",
"1846, in the meaning defined at transitive sense",
"Noun (2)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb (2)",
"1720, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-140100"
},
"slimline":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or being a long small-diameter fluorescent lamp used especially in a concealed location (as for showcase illumination)"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-145432"
},
"slimmer":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a person dieting to lose weight"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sli-m\u0259r"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1967, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-145649"
},
"slip (into)":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
"as in put on , don"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-151318"
},
"slapstick":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a device made of two flat pieces of wood fastened at one end so as to make a loud noise when used by an actor to strike a person",
": comedy stressing farce and horseplay",
": activity resembling slapstick"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slap-\u02ccstik"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedy",
"farce",
"humor"
],
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"examples":[
"an actor whose roles range from slapstick to serious drama",
"a lowbrow comedy that relies heavily on slapstick for its laughs",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Despite training as a serious Shakespearean actor, Varney found breakout success with the goofball slapstick of the Ernest movies. \u2014 Brendan Mcaleer, Car and Driver , 21 May 2022",
"The result is the stuff of silly slapstick rather than a full-Cage head trip. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
"As the mustache-twirling sheriff, Muldoon has some evil fun, though the film feels uncommitted to the slapstick . \u2014 Michael Ordo\u00f1a, Los Angeles Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"In terms of slapstick and sight gags, Robotnik's silly escape-the-planet sequence sets the film's real-life-cartoon tone. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 6 Apr. 2022",
"In between the gaslighting and mildly violent slapstick that moves the mystery along, Baena finds time to let supporting players like Tim Heidecker, Ayden Mayeri and Lauren Weedman score small but memorable laughs. \u2014 John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Mar. 2022",
"Bloom has a talent for mixing the prosaic and profound, the slapstick and the serious, which makes the book, despite its depressing subject matter, a pleasure to read. \u2014 Ann Levin, USA TODAY , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Cyrano is no worse than Roxanne, Steve Martin\u2019s silly 1987 attempt to turn Edmond Rostand\u2019s Cyrano de Bergerac into contemporary slapstick . \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 25 Feb. 2022",
"Shooting on film before a studio audience, using multiple cameras, Arnaz rewrote the technological rules of TV, and the show became part of the cultural DNA with its sharp-as-a-whip slapstick and banter. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 Jan. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1896, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-161009"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": lacking erectness or stiffness (as in form or posture)"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slau\u0307-ch\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The muted colors, slouchy draping and effortless cool of the clothes captured the imagination of a culture that was ready to move on from the wilder aspects of \u201970s disco and punk aesthetics. \u2014 Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"But the blend of cotton and polyester with 2 percent spandex makes for a heavier ten-ounce denim with excellent stretch and just enough softness to feel slouchy -cozy. \u2014 Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online , 17 Mar. 2021",
"For the fun outing, the Jennifer's Body actress dressed casually, opting for a slouchy black jacket, a black tank top, ripped baggy jeans, and black-and-white sneakers. \u2014 Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR , 5 Apr. 2022",
"After all, there's something so empowering about slipping into a pair of cool, confidence-boosting boots, and her fierce, slouchy style (in that unexpected shade of pale green, no less) is giving us life in the best way possible. \u2014 Jennifer Chan, PEOPLE.com , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Katie Holmes made a case for the sock-and-sandal movement by styling a slouchy pink pair with chunky chain JW Anderson slides. \u2014 Alexis Bennett, Vogue , 2 Mar. 2021",
"Stiff and sturdy backpacks tend to keep their chic, shapely appearance for the long haul, while slouchy bags typically lose their shape with time. \u2014 Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Olsen\u2019s second bag of choice was a streamlined yet slouchy shape, also in black leather. \u2014 Vogue , 11 Mar. 2022",
"The model is no stranger to menswear layers either, routinely sporting roomy blazers and slouchy overcoats in an unfussy way. \u2014 Jake Smith, Glamour , 4 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1693, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-171549"
},
"slops":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a loose smock or overall",
": short full breeches worn by men in the 16th century",
": articles (such as clothing) sold to sailors",
": soft mud : slush",
": thin tasteless drink or liquid food",
": liquid spilled or splashed",
": food waste (such as garbage) fed to animals : swill sense 2a",
": excreted body waste",
": a product of little or no value : rubbish",
": sentimental effusiveness in speech or writing : gush",
": to spill from a container",
": to splash or spill liquid on",
": to cause (a liquid) to splash",
": to dish out messily",
": to eat or drink greedily or noisily",
": to feed slop to",
": to tramp in mud or slush",
": to become spilled or splashed",
": to be effusive : gush",
": to pass beyond or exceed a boundary or limit",
": thin tasteless drink or liquid food",
": food waste or gruel fed to animals",
": body waste",
": soft mud",
": to spill or spill something on or over",
": to feed slop to"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00e4p",
"\u02c8sl\u00e4p"
],
"synonyms":[
"dash",
"slosh",
"spatter",
"splash",
"swash"
],
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"She slopped coffee on her sweater.",
"Huge waves slopped water into the boat."
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
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"Noun (1)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1557, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-182001"
},
"sloppiness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": wet so as to spatter easily : slushy",
": wet or smeared with or as if with something slopped over",
": slovenly , careless",
": disagreeably effusive",
": careless in work or in appearance",
": wet enough to spatter easily : containing a lot of moisture"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00e4-p\u0113",
"\u02c8sl\u00e4-p\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowsy",
"blowzy",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"slobbish",
"slobby",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy"
],
"antonyms":[
"dapper",
"dashing",
"dolled up",
"sharp",
"smart",
"spruce"
],
"examples":[
"Your work has been very sloppy lately.",
"a sloppy child who always seems to have spilled something on his clothes",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Mean-spirited, downright sloppy and awkwardly unfunny, this rote feature reboot lacks holiday cheer. \u2014 Courtney Howard, Variety , 11 Nov. 2021",
"The Celtics were sloppy in Game 2 against the Warriors with 19 turnovers that led to 33 points. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 6 June 2022",
"Many sheet masks are sloppy , dripping with substance, or too dried out to be useful. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Trinity\u2019s defense has been a little sloppy so far this week. \u2014 Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al , 17 May 2022",
"Though otherwise unrelated, the five cases shared many of the same troubling traits common in wrongful convictions, including sloppy detective work, questionable legal representation, shaky witness identifications and withheld evidence. \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2022",
"Ideally, that oversight would correct sloppy police work and unconstitutional law enforcement practices. \u2014 Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun , 8 Mar. 2022",
"At home, the Cardinals tend to come out a little flat and play a little sloppy . \u2014 Bob Mcmanaman, The Arizona Republic , 13 Dec. 2021",
"Taylor Ward\u2019s grand slam in the second off Cleveland starter Zach Plesac was the knockout blow after Guardians defenders opened the door with sloppy infield play. \u2014 Joe Noga, cleveland , 28 Apr. 2022"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1672, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-183717"
},
"slop":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a loose smock or overall",
": short full breeches worn by men in the 16th century",
": articles (such as clothing) sold to sailors",
": soft mud : slush",
": thin tasteless drink or liquid food",
": liquid spilled or splashed",
": food waste (such as garbage) fed to animals : swill sense 2a",
": excreted body waste",
": a product of little or no value : rubbish",
": sentimental effusiveness in speech or writing : gush",
": to spill from a container",
": to splash or spill liquid on",
": to cause (a liquid) to splash",
": to dish out messily",
": to eat or drink greedily or noisily",
": to feed slop to",
": to tramp in mud or slush",
": to become spilled or splashed",
": to be effusive : gush",
": to pass beyond or exceed a boundary or limit",
": thin tasteless drink or liquid food",
": food waste or gruel fed to animals",
": body waste",
": soft mud",
": to spill or spill something on or over",
": to feed slop to"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00e4p",
"\u02c8sl\u00e4p"
],
"synonyms":[
"dash",
"slosh",
"spatter",
"splash",
"swash"
],
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"examples":[
"Verb",
"She slopped coffee on her sweater.",
"Huge waves slopped water into the boat."
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
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"Noun (1)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"1557, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-185424"
},
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"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":[
"straight-line wavelength"
],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-193112"
},
"sluff (off)":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
"to get rid of as useless or unwanted finally sloughed off the depression that had been weighing him down for months"
],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-194614"
},
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"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":[
"sleeve",
"solvent"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-202637"
},
"slop around/about":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to move or act in a lazy or relaxed way : to spend time resting or relaxing"
],
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"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-202824"
},
"sluttery":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": sluttishness"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0259t\u0259r\u0113",
"-l\u0259t\u0259-",
"-ri"
],
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"history_and_etymology":" slut + -ery ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-210046"
},
"slur":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb",
"verb ()"
],
"definitions":[
": an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo : aspersion",
": a shaming or degrading effect : stain , stigma",
": a blurred spot in printed matter : smudge",
": to cast aspersions on : disparage",
": to make indistinct : obscure",
": to slip so as to cause a slur",
": to slide or slip over without due mention, consideration, or emphasis",
": to perform hurriedly : skimp",
": to perform (successive tones of different pitch) in a smooth or connected manner",
": to reduce, make a substitution for, or omit (sounds that would normally occur in an utterance)",
": to utter with such reduction, substitution, or omission of sounds",
": slip , slide",
": drag , shuffle",
": a curved line connecting notes to be sung to the same syllable or performed without a break",
": the combination of two or more slurred tones",
": a slurring manner of speech",
": an insulting remark",
": to speak in a way that is difficult to understand",
": a way of talking that is difficult to understand"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0259r",
"\u02c8sl\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun (1)",
"1609, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb (1)",
"1660, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1",
"Verb (2)",
"1660, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a",
"Noun (2)",
"circa 1801, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-215824"
},
"slimicide":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a chemical that prevents the growth of slime in paper stock"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u012bm\u0259\u02ccs\u012bd"
],
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"history_and_etymology":" slime entry 1 + -i- + -cide ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-220742"
},
"slimmish":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": somewhat slight or slender"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8slimish"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":" slim entry 1 + -ish ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-221530"
},
"slop basin":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": slop bowl"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1731, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-232504"
},
"slurb":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a suburb of wearisomely uniform and usually poorly constructed houses"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0259rb"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":" sl- (as in slovenly, sleazy ) + sub urb ",
"first_known_use":[
"1962, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-000847"
},
"slup":{
"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to sip or swallow (as soup or beverage) greedily and noisily : slurp"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0259p"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"history_and_etymology":"perhaps alteration of slop entry 3 ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-002632"
},
"sling":{
"type":[
"noun",
"noun ()",
"verb",
"verb ()"
],
"definitions":[
": to cast with a sudden and usually sweeping or swirling motion",
": to throw with or as if with a sling",
": to serve (food) to a customer",
": an instrument for throwing stones that usually consists of a short strap with strings fastened to its ends and is whirled round to discharge its missile by centrifugal force",
": slingshot sense 1",
": a usually looped line (as of strap, chain, or rope) used to hoist, lower, or carry something",
": a hanging bandage suspended from the neck to support an arm or hand",
": a chain or rope attached to a lower yard at the middle and passing around a mast near the masthead to support a yard",
": a chain hooked at the bow and stern of a boat for lowering or hoisting",
": a device (such as a rope net) for enclosing material to be hoisted by a tackle or crane",
": a slinging or hurling of or as if of a missile",
": to place in a sling for hoisting or lowering",
": to suspend by or as if by a sling",
": an alcoholic drink that is served hot or cold and that usually consists of liquor, sugar, lemon juice, and plain or carbonated water",
": to throw with a sudden sweeping motion : fling",
": to hurl with a sling",
": a device (as a short strap with a string attached at each end) for hurling stones",
": a device (as a rope or chain) by which something is lifted or carried",
": a bandage hanging from the neck to hold up the arm or hand",
": to put in or move or support with a sling",
": to hang from two points",
": a hanging bandage suspended from the neck to support an arm or hand",
": a harness especially constructed for supporting a sick animal in a standing position"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sli\u014b",
"\u02c8sli\u014b",
"\u02c8sli\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb (1)",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb (1)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (1)",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb (2)",
"1522, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun (2)",
"1768, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-003313"
},
"slumdom":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a district of slums",
": the quality or state of being a slum"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0259md\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":" slum entry 1 + -dom ",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-003402"
},
"sloot":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": sluit"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u00fct"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Dutch",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-010238"
},
"slavish":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude",
": basely or abjectly servile",
": despicable , low",
": oppressive , tyrannical",
": copying obsequiously or without originality : imitative",
": following, copying, or accepting something or someone without questioning"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8sl\u0101-vish",
"sometimes",
"\u02c8sl\u0101-vish"
],
"synonyms":[
"apish",
"canned",
"emulative",
"epigonic",
"epigonous",
"formulaic",
"imitative",
"mimetic",
"mimic",
"unoriginal"
],
"antonyms":[
"archetypal",
"archetypical",
"original"
],
"examples":[
"a politician and his slavish followers",
"He has been criticized for his slavish devotion to the rules.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Well, that Rudolph Giuliani is a distant memory to many, obscured by his conspiracy mongering and slavish devotion to Donald Trump. \u2014 Rebecca Rubin, Variety , 8 June 2022",
"But what\u2019s interesting is that in a party whose devotion to Trump has been nothing short of slavish , DeSantis has been the only figure willing to step forward to challenge Trump\u2019s positions. \u2014 Daniel Strauss, The New Republic , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Our slavish adherence to the concept of engineering art extends far beneath the surface of the T.33's body. \u2014 Alistair Charlton, Forbes , 27 Jan. 2022",
"That his friend was Princess Lee Radziwill, a fixture of the high society to which Capote remained slavish , was naturally a major component. \u2014 Mark Peikert, Town & Country , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Trump, after all, was not supported these past few years by only his most slavish sycophants. \u2014 Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker , 22 Apr. 2021",
"Nothing but slavish allegiance to Donald Trump's Big Lie about the 2020 election and a desperate desire to prevent citizens from voting as a way to prevent Republicans from losing elections. \u2014 Star Tribune , 13 May 2021",
"The most extreme Trump supporters will love the idea, but most independents and even some Republicans will conclude that the Republican Party no longer has any policies other than the slavish worshiping of one man. \u2014 WSJ , 9 May 2021",
"Amazingly, many of the most fervent supporters are young people who have seemingly forsaken youthful rebellion for slavish conformity. \u2014 WSJ , 18 Apr. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-013920"
},
"slap shot":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a shot in ice hockey made with a swinging stroke"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But the Lightning led 1-0 on Friday, thanks to Rutta's first goal of this year's playoffs on a slap shot that got through goalie Darcy Kuemper. \u2014 Mike Brehm, USA TODAY , 25 June 2022",
"Two days prior, the Wings lost Game 6 at Olympia when Maple Leafs defenseman Bobby Baum, who suffered a broken ankle late in regulation from a Gordie Howe slap shot , returned for overtime and scored the winner at 2:43. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 6 June 2022",
"Parayko scored his second goal of the postseason on a slap shot from the point 3:55 into the game to put St. Louis ahead 1-0. \u2014 David Solomon, ajc , 22 May 2022",
"Backlund\u2019s third goal of the series came on a slap shot , about four minutes after Johnny Gaudreau\u2019s nifty pass across the front of the Dallas net to Michael Stone for the easy tip-in. \u2014 Stephen Hawkins, ajc , 14 May 2022",
"The Wings won, 3-2, after 91 seconds of the third overtime when Slava Kozlov scored on a power-play slap shot \u2014 the game\u2019s 122nd shot and the Wings\u2019 71st. \u2014 Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press , 4 May 2022",
"Mayhew\u2019s rising slap shot from the top of the left circle tipped off Vejmelka\u2019s glove for a 2-0 lead at 7:41. \u2014 Jack Magruder, ajc , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Seider was denied on a slap shot and had a shot blocked; Filip Hronek also tried to get a shot through. \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 26 Mar. 2022",
"Raymond scored on S\u00f8gaard at 2:18 of the second period, connecting on a loose puck after S\u00f8gaard stopped Jake Walman's slap shot . \u2014 Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press , 2 Apr. 2022"
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"noun"
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"to fail to give proper attention to a documentary that slurs over certain important facts as it offers a very biased case for a conspiracy theory"
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"noun"
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": a mineral (Na, K) 2 Fe 10 (OH) 6 (SO 4 ) 13 .63H 2 O(?) consisting of a hydrous basic sodium ferric sulfate and occurring as small greenish yellow rhombohedral crystals on weathered shales from Bohemia"
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"noun"
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"He is a lying sleazeball .",
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"1981, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
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": a nearly neutral slightly purplish black"
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"\u02c8sli-t\u035fh\u0259-r\u0113",
"\u02c8sli-t\u035fh\u0259-r\u0113"
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"greased",
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"oiled",
"slick",
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"slippery",
"slippy"
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"She wore a sexy, slithery dress.",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"While painting a front door may seem like an easy update for a prospective home buyer to make, certain front door colors\u2014like slate blue and black\u2014can actually make your home sell for more. \u2014 Kelly Allen, House Beautiful , 23 June 2022",
"For the Sainte Devote Rugby Tournament\u2014an annual, day-long youth sports initiative sponsored by the princess's foundation\u2014Charlene wore a slate blue A-line dress, belted at the waist, with simple black pumps. \u2014 Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country , 11 June 2022",
"Charlotte wore a black wool coat by favored brand Amaia and slate blue Mary Janes. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 4 June 2022",
"The light fixture that was added over the pool table is a very classic approach to a billiards light, but the shades on it are a slate blue , which lends a fresh spin. \u2014 Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 26 May 2022",
"Around the corner, an existing pantry cabinet was altered from brown to a chalky slate blue . \u2014 Krissa Rossbund, Better Homes & Gardens , 5 May 2022",
"The walls of the lobby area have been lacquered a delicious slate blue ; the floor is veined black marble. \u2014 Claire Messud, Travel + Leisure , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The palette was a soothing combination of neutrals \u2014 dove gray, light tan \u2014 with slate blue and plaid accents, while the cabinets that housed the safe and mini-bar resembled a cream-leather steamer trunk. \u2014 Claire Messud, Travel + Leisure , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The group opted for coordinating suits in in shades of tan, white, and slate blue , but kept things from being too matchy-matchy with floral pins and brooches. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 3 Apr. 2022"
],
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"1796, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
],
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": an article of clothing that is easily slipped on or off: such as",
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": pullover"
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"\u02c8slip-\u02cc\u022fn",
"-\u02cc\u00e4n"
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"1815, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a meat stew"
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"\u02c8sl\u0259m-\u02ccg\u0259l-y\u0259n",
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"history_and_etymology":"perhaps from slum slime + English dialect gullion mud, cesspool",
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"1890, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"transitive verb"
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": to make Slavic in quality or characteristics : cause to become adapted to Slavism",
": to adapt to Slavic usage : alter to a characteristically Slavic form"
],
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"\u02c8slav\u0259\u02ccs\u012bz",
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"type":[
"noun"
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": a loose-fitting sweater especially for girls",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The sloppy joe is the most famous one, but the bok choy is phenomenal, too. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Their menu also includes a variety of sliders like sloppy joe sliders and chicken and waffle sliders and sides like mac 'n cheese nibblers, chicken rings, corn dog nibblers, and french fries. \u2014 Fox 35 News Staff, FOX 35 Orlando , 23 Mar. 2021",
"In each were three cans of sloppy joe mix, a few protein bars, a bag of instant potatoes and three single-serving cups of applesauce or pineapple. \u2014 Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com , 24 Apr. 2020",
"The sloppy joe consistency for this recipe needed to be thick, not soupy. \u2014 Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Spaghetti Bolognese turned an Italian standby into a sloppy Joe with noodles. \u2014 Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com , 21 Nov. 2019",
"Expect items from the truck's Asian-fusion menu, including a classic pork belly bao and vegan sloppy joe made with jackfruit, along with several new bao creations, small plates and soups. \u2014 Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle , 21 Aug. 2019",
"At first glance, the Hot Bob sandwich \u2014 one of the new food offerings available to Bears fans at Soldier Field concession stands this season, unveiled by the team Monday \u2014 is just an ordinary school-cafeteria sloppy Joe . \u2014 Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com , 25 Aug. 2019",
"Admittedly an overly sentimental person, Kemper said the busy shooting schedule for the final episode didn't leave too much room to absorb the finality of it all \u2014 save, of course, for the sloppy Joe helping at craft service. \u2014 Yvonne Villarreal, latimes.com , 7 June 2019"
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"1940, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-114751"
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"type":[
"noun, plural in form but singular in construction"
],
"definitions":[
": exercises designed to reduce one's weight"
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"\u02ccslim-\u02c8na-stiks"
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"slim entry 1 + gym nastics"
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"first_known_use":[
"1967, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-130805"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
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": a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-135637"
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"noun"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-135752"
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"noun"
],
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": a group of persons who save money in a common fund for a specified purpose (as distribution at Christmas)"
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"definitions":[
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"1837, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-144655"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the residue consisting chiefly of propolis, cocoons, bits of wax, and honey that remains after removal of the readily extractable honey and wax from honeycombs"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"slum entry 3 + gum"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-144842"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length : slender",
": mean , worthless",
": adroit , crafty",
": inferior in quality or amount : slight",
": scanty , small",
": to make slender : decrease the size of",
": to become slender",
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": very small",
": to make or become slender"
],
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"\u02c8slim",
"\u02c8slim"
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"fine",
"hairline",
"narrow",
"needlelike",
"paper-thin",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim-jim",
"thin",
"ultrathin"
],
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"broad",
"fat",
"wide"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Former rebel Gustavo Petro is set to be Colombia's first leftist president after voters handed him a slim victory in Sunday's runoff election against Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez, a political outsider and populist. \u2014 Paul Best, Fox News , 20 June 2022",
"Fans of both fashion and the royals can find much to like in this slim volume. \u2014 Autumn Brewington, Washington Post , 18 June 2022",
"That huge grille is flanked by two slim lights, and generally, the front of the car looks fine. \u2014 Christian De Looper, BGR , 17 June 2022",
"Its side pockets are ideal for juice boxes, food pouches, or a slim water bottle. \u2014 Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day , 16 June 2022",
"The containers nest, and their lids are slim for easy storage. \u2014 Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
"Her win also has implications for Democrats\u2019 ambitions in Congress, denying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi an opportunity to add to her slim two-vote margin to pass legislation. \u2014 Brian Slodysko, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"Her win also has implications for Democrats\u2019 ambitions in Congress, denying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi an opportunity to add to her slim two-vote margin to pass legislation. FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TO THE WHITE HOUSE? \u2014 Brian Slodysko, Anchorage Daily News , 15 June 2022",
"The court in a slim 4-3 vote cited new anti-gerrymandering rules Ohio voters added to the state constitution in 2015. \u2014 Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland , 14 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Other, less official royal sources, said that the limited balcony lineup was the result of the longstanding desire by Prince Charles to \u2018 slim down\u2019 the monarchy. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"That didn\u2019t stop Kardashian, who asked the Ripley team to give her a few weeks to slim down and fit into the original. \u2014 Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter , 5 May 2022",
"The possibility of a liquid ocean beneath Pluto\u2019s surface increases the chance of life existing on the dwarf planet from none, to slim . \u2014 Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine , 31 Mar. 2022",
"By learning how many from each category her body needed to meet her goals, Downey was able to splurge and still slim down. \u2014 Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com , 3 Jan. 2022",
"Party leaders are engaged in an all-out effort right now to work with the various factions of the party to narrow and slim down Biden's social safety net package. \u2014 Lauren Fox, CNN , 7 Oct. 2021",
"The anonymous tipster, who has a solid track record, says recent claims that Apple will slim down the bezels on the standard models is incorrect and the phones will be identical to the current iPhone 13. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
"As far back as 1930, when director Josef von Sternberg told an already svelte Marlene Dietrich to slim down for Morocco, actresses have been pushed to lose weight. \u2014 Lynette Rice, EW.com , 6 Mar. 2022",
"Democrats accelerated efforts to strike a deal on their social-policy and climate legislation, as Biden identified programs that party lawmakers could eliminate or slim down during a flurry of meetings at the White House. \u2014 WSJ , 20 Oct. 2021"
],
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"Adjective",
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],
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"Adjective",
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-152756"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a plain Irish cake"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-152930"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a pail for toilet or household slops"
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"1821, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-154523"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a strong wood floor to which ropes are attached at the corners so that it can be lifted by a ship's winch in handling cargo"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-165720"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": Slavic traits or attitudes",
": slavophilism",
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],
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"\u02c8sl\u00e4\u02ccviz\u0259m",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-171759"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": slavicist"
],
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"1863, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-171958"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a lapping or sloshing sound",
": an act of washing : wash"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"probably alteration of slush entry 3"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-173508"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": the act of killing",
": the butchering of livestock for market",
": killing of great numbers of human beings (as in battle or a massacre) : carnage",
": to kill (animals) for food : butcher",
": to kill in a bloody or violent manner : slay",
": to kill in large numbers : massacre",
": to discredit, defeat, or demolish completely",
": the act of killing",
": the act of killing and preparing animals for food",
": destruction of many lives especially in battle",
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"\u02c8sl\u022f-t\u0259r",
"\u02c8sl\u022f-t\u0259r"
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"carnage",
"death",
"holocaust",
"massacre"
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"mow (down)"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"the slaughter of innocent people",
"all civilized nations should protest this senseless slaughter",
"Verb",
"Our team got slaughtered yesterday.",
"modern poultry farms slaughter a vast number of chickens every day",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Nevertheless, the final round of deliberations in November was a slaughter . \u2014 Katie Worth, Scientific American , 20 June 2022",
"Those scheduled to testify include Zeneta Everhart, mother of Buffalo shooting victim Zaire Goodman, and Felix and Kimberly Rubio whose daughter, Lexi, was killed during the Uvalde slaughter . \u2014 Candy Woodall, USA TODAY , 3 June 2022",
"People who openly align with white supremacy and then commit slaughter in its name are dismissed as solely mentally ill instead of a symptom of something more deep-rooted. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 June 2022",
"But the pigs follow an annual rhythm of birth, fattening, and inevitable slaughter that resists traditional narrative satisfaction. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"Continuing to send him vast amounts of money for fossil fuels (more on which in the news blurbs below) would only set up worse problems down the line\u2014and would of course be morally grotesque, given that the cash is funding slaughter in Ukraine. \u2014 David Meyer, Fortune , 20 May 2022",
"Back at the barbecue joint, Sheriff Herman Hickey (Ron Perlman), a gruff longtime lawman with a sardonic sense of humanity, is investigating signs that a bloody slaughter recently occurred on the premises. \u2014 Joe Leydon, Variety , 12 May 2022",
"While the slaughter obliterated the species, the spoils helped make the modern world. \u2014 Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Arredondo, believed to be the incident commander, has come under intense criticism for allegedly treating the slaughter as a barricade situation and telling officers under his control to not force a confrontation with the killer. \u2014 David K. Li, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The tortoises could live for months without food or water, so the sailors would fill their ship hulls with live tortoises, then slaughter them along the way for fresh meat, Jensen said. \u2014 Ashley Strickland, CNN , 10 June 2022",
"Across the galaxy, the Empire continues to root out the Jedi, slaughter them, crush all opposition. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 1 June 2022",
"Rising prices aren\u2019t offsetting costs, likely prompting farmers to slaughter animals earlier than usual. \u2014 Megan Durisin, Jen Skerritt, Michael Hirtzer, Anchorage Daily News , 21 May 2022",
"That is also where the suspect, before setting out to slaughter Black shoppers in Buffalo, posted a 180-page compendium of racist arguments and internet memes. \u2014 New York Times , 15 May 2022",
"Outbreaks can be devastating for livestock producers, who either lose their animals to the disease itself or must slaughter their herds to stop the spread. \u2014 Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 May 2022",
"An 18-year-old gunman used an AR-style rifle to slaughter 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday \u2014 two days before school ended for the summer. \u2014 Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune , 25 May 2022",
"John Leo, who as a columnist for Time and U.S. News & World Report used his acerbic wit to slaughter herds of liberal sacred cows, especially those wandering outward from college campuses, died on Monday in the Bronx. \u2014 New York Times , 11 May 2022",
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"In 2003, lawmakers approved a measure that opponents, only somewhat in jest, referred to as a slumlord protection act. \u2014 Alan Judd, ajc , 19 June 2022",
"City officials did hit Korn with $235,000 in fines last month \u2014 was that finally the tipping point that led him to drop his slumlord ways? \u2014 Caroline Spivack, Curbed , 17 Dec. 2021",
"Contrary to what Jacobs said about Reno motel owners, Mead hardly fits the definition of a slumlord . \u2014 David Calvert, ProPublica , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Among the recurring characters was the troupe\u2019s first antagonist, Uncle Fatso, whose roles included a slumlord and allegorical representations of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. \u2014 New York Times , 11 Aug. 2021",
"But as Max points out in his summation, Dalton also made those millions as a slumlord , charging black people more and refusing to rent to them beyond their segregated enclave. \u2014 Gary Younge, The New York Review of Books , 1 Oct. 2020",
"For decades, out-of-state property investors and slumlords have been able to hide their identities behind LLCs in particular, and shirk responsibility for problems at their rentals. \u2014 Rebecca Lurye, courant.com , 31 Oct. 2019",
"There\u2019s the notorious advertisement labeling primary opponent Scott Wagner a deadbeat dad and a slumlord . \u2014 Julian Routh, Philly.com , 7 May 2018",
"Perhaps one day, over a cup of tea at your kitchen table, one of them told you about her harrowing journey across the ocean from a poor country far away to find refuge in a cramped, barely furnished apartment in Chicago, owned by a slumlord . \u2014 Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com , 24 Sep. 2019"
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"There was some of that as well in the reaction to the L.A. summit, with its slapdash planning and the way that U.S. domestic politics infiltrated the agenda. \u2014 William Neuman, The Atlantic , 13 June 2022",
"In one of the fables that explains its origins, a slapdash artist paints a tiger\u2019s head but changes his mind midway and completes the creature with a horse\u2019s body. \u2014 New York Times , 18 May 2022",
"In contrast, Eleanor and Lorena\u2019s relationship feels slapdash and underwritten, with Anderson and Rabe sharing less than a nanogram of chemistry. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Judd Apatow grabbed a wad of Netflix cash and threw together The Bubble, a slapdash comedy with an embarrassment of misused talent. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The image drives home the slapdash , unlikely origins of Truman\u2019s presidency. \u2014 John Dickerson, The Atlantic , 1 Mar. 2022",
"In reality, in-depth reporting with context and nuance takes time; slapdash stories and opinion columns barely any time at all. \u2014 Brian Stelter, CNN , 16 Feb. 2022",
"The inconsistent, unscientific, and slapdash solutions are the Hong Kong government's latest attempts to fend off its most bruising clash with COVID yet. \u2014 Eamon Barrett, Fortune , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Unfortunately, everything else has a slapdash hint of amateurism. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Many neighbors of the Vernon slaughterhouse are glad to be free of its stench. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 June 2022",
"Life in working-class Watts is seen through the eyes of a Black slaughterhouse employee in this insightful 1978 indie drama directed by Charles Burnett. \u2014 Matt Cooperlistings Coordinator, Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2022",
"The government\u2019s Mexican Turtle Center \u2014 a former slaughterhouse turned conservation center in Mazunte \u2014 closed to visitors because of the hurricane. \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda \u00c1lvarez, Anchorage Daily News , 31 May 2022",
"Five of the dogs that touched down in Canada on March 16 are puppies saved from death when their pregnant mother was pulled from a slaughterhouse truck. \u2014 Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com , 22 Mar. 2022",
"That piece, redolent of the boxing ring and the slaughterhouse , is not the only one to invoke violence. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Worried about her brother, her parents also stayed in place, just nine miles from the suburb of Bucha, which occupying Russian forces turned into a slaughterhouse . \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Confidentiality agreements prevented FoodID from disclosing the identity of the slaughterhouse or the feedlots supplying it, said FoodID chief marketing officer Scott Levitan. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Apr. 2022",
"At high noon on an early-spring day in 2017, six steers doomed to die escaped their slaughterhouse and stormed the streets of my city. \u2014 Ian Bogost, The Atlantic , 13 Mar. 2022"
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": a sweet reddish liqueur consisting of grain spirits flavored chiefly with sloes"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Back at Dromoland Castle, O\u2019Dwyer leads a cooking class that not only prepares all the food gathered (think, blackberry pies and nettle pesto), but also teaches participants how to preserve it ( sloe gin , anyone?). \u2014 Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Substitute it for traditional simple syrup in daiquiris, mojitos, sloe gin fizzes, and, best of all, French 75s. \u2014 Beth Segal, cleveland , 23 Dec. 2021",
"Trash heaps near ancient homes contained the remains of hazelnuts, crab apples and sloes (also known as blackthorns, the berries are used to make sloe gin ). \u2014 Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine , 1 Dec. 2021",
"The Trust recommends enjoying the sloe gin in a Sloe Royale. \u2014 Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country , 9 May 2021",
"Highlights include the Japonri with Japanese whisky, sloe gin , and Aperol, as well as a limited mocktail menu. \u2014 Jenna Scatena, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 5 Nov. 2019",
"If the weather\u2019s good, snag a spot on the terrace, order a sloe gin and soda ap\u00e9ritif, and take it all in. \u2014 Laura Giannatempo, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 27 June 2018",
"Now go ahead and create a Ramos gin fizz, Clover Club, pisco sour, sloe gin fizz or any other cocktail recipe that calls for egg white. \u2014 Lisa Futterman, chicagotribune.com , 11 Apr. 2018",
"Love Cocktail 1 1/2 ounces sloe gin 1 egg white 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon raspberry syrup Shake all ingredients over cracked ice. \u2014 Michele Gouveia, Marie Claire , 14 Feb. 2014"
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": having a slim or delicate build : not stout or massive in body",
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": deficient in weight, solidity, or importance : trivial",
": small of its kind or in amount",
": to treat as slight or unimportant : make light of",
": to treat with disdain or indifference",
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": an act or an instance of slighting",
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": small of its kind or in amount",
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": not important : trivial",
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"diss",
"disrespect",
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"offend",
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"slap",
"wound"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"Miller has been seen as the slight front-runner in the race. \u2014 Aaron Navarro, CBS News , 27 June 2022",
"The slight delay of the season in Washington will stretch their availability through Labor Day. \u2014 Naoki Nitta, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 June 2022",
"This past weekend\u2019s airport misery actually marked a slight improvement from the previous week when there were 1,480 cancellations June 17, 864 on June 18 and 913 on June 19. \u2014 David K. Li, NBC News , 27 June 2022",
"Cooler temperatures, a slight breeze, and maybe a refreshing cocktail in hand? \u2014 Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens , 27 June 2022",
"Extended forecasts are showing slight warming, and more sunny skies Thursday and Friday. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 June 2022",
"In a garage, floating shelves strong enough to hold stacks of wood can be supported by short lengths of pipe drilled into studs at a slight angle, so nothing tips off. \u2014 Jeanne Huber, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
"Wearing her University of Kentucky uniform, Steiner won the 200 final in 21.77 seconds running into a slight headwind at the USA Track & Field outdoor championships. \u2014 Usa Today, The Courier-Journal , 26 June 2022",
"The slight bitterness of Amarenas is especially divine as a cocktail garnish for a Dirty Shirley, toning down the sweetness. \u2014 Kelsey Ogletree, Bon App\u00e9tit , 25 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"This is not to slight Yao Dogbe, Yetunde Felix-Ukwu and Joel Ashur, all of whom provide giddy portraits of the sleazy manipulation, craven desperation and boundless self-regard inherent in an industry of vanity everlasting. \u2014 Peter Marks, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"To say that music was another backdrop for partying is not to slight the music. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 27 Apr. 2022",
"That\u2019s not to slight the Navy, but, to be frank, the Navy\u2019s management record on Red Hill is pretty poor. \u2014 Craig Hooper, Forbes , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Since March, the law has been used at least 15 times to punish people who slight party history. \u2014 New York Times , 2 Nov. 2021",
"For Claire, stepping back from her bright career would slight Martha, who could never afford such comforts. \u2014 Katy Waldman, The New Yorker , 28 Oct. 2021",
"The response Miss Manners dislikes is your assumption that the host intended to slight some of her guests and hog all the wine for her end of the table. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 June 2021",
"Super Cruise\u2019s accident rate is superb at present, while Tesla\u2019s accident rate with Autopilot on is similar to or slight worse than with Autopilot off. \u2014 Brad Templeton, Forbes , 28 May 2021",
"Not to slight female birds, but that plumage is not recognized as easily as that of breeding males. \u2014 Jim Williams, Star Tribune , 11 May 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Whether Embiid intended that as a slight is irrelevant. \u2014 Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY , 13 May 2022",
"Your first tendency, of course, will be to take a negative comment as a personal slight . \u2014 Graydon Mckee, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"The simplicity of the premise should not be read as a slight . \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 20 May 2022",
"Think of it more as a slight , though initially alarming, change from the norm. \u2014 Chloe Berger, Fortune , 19 May 2022",
"Playing without Ja Morant, Memphis continued to thrive without him \u2013 not a slight at Morant so much as a credit to their depth and confidence. \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"That\u2019s not a slight at all to Buckner, who has been tremendous all season. \u2014 Doug Farrar, USA TODAY , 24 Dec. 2021",
"This is not meant as a slight , but there are a few head-scratchers on your r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u2014 Mikey O'connell, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 Mar. 2022",
"In the face of another slight , Wheeler has no problem proving herself again. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 July 2021"
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"Middle English, smooth, slight, probably from Old English sliht - (in eorth-slihtes level with the ground); akin to Old High German sleht smooth, sl\u012bhhan to glide \u2014 more at slick entry 2"
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": an impudent girl : minx"
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"geographical name"
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"\u02c8slan-d\u0259r",
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"She was accused of slandering her former boss.",
"Noun",
"She is being sued for slander .",
"He was a target of slander .",
"We've heard countless unsupported slanders about her.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"While the campaign to slander FDR\u2019s intraparty antagonist started to unfold, the president was trying to protect one of his closest advisers from the same charge. \u2014 James Kirchick, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"The station broadcast across the Midwest, and Baker used its considerable reach, along with a print publication, to promote his cure, slander his personal enemies, and denigrate the mainstream medical establishment. \u2014 The New Yorker , 26 Apr. 2022",
"As an obvious first element, there must be a statement, which can either be in writing (libel) or spoken ( slander ). \u2014 Schuyler Moore, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
"Or a person who knows how fast rumors spread on social media and decides not to slander someone on Facebook or Twitter or TikTok, whatever that is. \u2014 Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al , 27 Apr. 2022",
"In attempting to slander her, Republican senators may also have done damage in the broader area of criminal-justice reform, dismissing all notions of judicial discretion and proportionality, let alone rehabilitation. \u2014 Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker , 9 Apr. 2022",
"And the same pundits and politicians who have spent two years attempting to ostracize and slander anyone who opposed their mandates are now deeply upset by some gentle prodding. \u2014 David Harsanyi, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
"But Kalb wasn\u2019t the only cheftestant to slander queso\u2019s good name. \u2014 Lauren Mcdowell, Chron , 10 Mar. 2022",
"And for most of that time Americans have subjected the birds to slander , torture, and mass slaughter. \u2014 Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic , 15 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"In 2016 -- before he was elected to the County Commission -- Eaton was one of four community activists the landfill\u2019s previous owners sued for libel and slander , seeking $30 million in damages. \u2014 Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al , 13 Jan. 2022",
"According to WalletHub, umbrella insurance also covers a wide range of scenarios such as libel and slander , false arrest, personal psychological harm and mental anguish, and malicious prosecution. \u2014 Hiranmayi Srinivasan, Better Homes & Gardens , 5 Nov. 2021",
"One alleges slander and false statements made by Becerra, his family and friends made on social media. \u2014 Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News , 2 Mar. 2022",
"These days Twitter is largely a festival of lies and self-referential light slander coated with a bunch of crazy anonymous people threatening to kill your dog. \u2014 Heather Wilhelm, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
"One alleges slander and false statements made by Becerra, his family and friends. \u2014 Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Kebe is liable on two counts of slander , one count of libel, and one count of invasion of privacy, granting Cardi $1 million in damages for pain & suffering due to reputational damages, and $250,000 in medical expenses. \u2014 Rivea Ruff, Essence , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Cultural slander such as this occurs only when deceit and falsehood become the cultural record. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 20 Oct. 2021",
"According to court documents, the jury found in favor of Walmart on other claims of false arrest, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and slander . \u2014 William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al , 29 Nov. 2021"
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": sure thing"
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"The vote proved to be a slam dunk for our side with a 24 to 5 win.",
"There's no doubt that he's guilty. The case is a slam dunk .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Still, making Capital One Software a success will be no slam dunk . \u2014 Martin Giles, Forbes , 1 June 2022",
"Defense attorney Richard Parker says the state's case is no slam dunk . \u2014 CBS News , 13 Nov. 2021",
"Experts have not always sold boosters as the same slam dunk as the initial COVID-19 vaccination series; accordingly, unboosted people haven\u2019t treated it as such. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Opposition to Russia looked like a global slam dunk to many in the West. \u2014 Walter Russell Mead, WSJ , 21 Mar. 2022",
"The highlight was a rare slam dunk by a college woman, Stanford 6-foot-1 junior forward Fran Belibi. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 18 Mar. 2022",
"With 34 seconds left Jackson corralled a rebound and started a fast break the other way that ended with a slam dunk by Lawrence, for the final points on the court this season. \u2014 Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic , 5 Mar. 2022",
"Production design seems like a slam dunk , while cinematography seems also assured for a mention. \u2014 Clayton Davis, Variety , 1 Dec. 2021",
"The song seemed like a slam dunk , but Perry made her sweat, splitting the group of contestants Nicolina performed with into two rows. \u2014 Charles Trepany, USA TODAY , 29 Mar. 2022"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-132824"
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": marked by roughness and impetuousness of manner or method",
": with excessive force, haste, and usually noise : precipitately"
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"verb"
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"Noun",
"the popular TV sleuth lives a much more action-packed life than do his real-world counterparts",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Rathom created for himself the reputation of a super- sleuth , then basked in it. \u2014 Robert G. Kaiser, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"In the history of fictional literary detectives, British mystery writer Agatha Christie\u2019s fussy Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is tops on the list. \u2014 Michelle F. Solomon, Sun Sentinel , 25 May 2022",
"Like a modern-day movie version of the game Clue (shout-out to the bomb \u201980s adaptation also), Rian Johnson\u2019s Knives Out speaks directly to the sleuth inside all of us. \u2014 Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR , 5 May 2022",
"Like all connoisseurs, Weathers is a dedicated sleuth who never reveals her sources. \u2014 Kyle Roderick, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The series follows a gen Z amateur sleuth named Darby Hart (Corrin). \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Heroes and Felons Toni Braxton returns as book lover, ex-con and amateur sleuth Hollis Morgan, who joins her fellow Fallen Angel Murder Club members in seeking answers to another member\u2019s death in the newest installment of the mystery serial. \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Seventies run here as well, when Batman flipped back from being a campy crusader to a twilight sleuth extraordinaire. \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Several writers in recent years have resuscitated Raymond Chandler\u2019s iconic Los Angeles sleuth Philip Marlowe. \u2014 Tom Nolan, WSJ , 28 Jan. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Since the start of the war, online users have tried to sleuth out the brands Zelenskyy relies on\u2014with California label 5.11 and Austrian Carinthia products among his outfit staples. \u2014 Tiffany Ap, Quartz , 9 May 2022",
"That's not to say that viewers should brace for a morose hour; in fact, the episode teems with frivolity and mystery, too, as Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson) and Madison (Caitlin Thompson) try to sleuth out whom Kevin spent the previous night with. \u2014 Dan Snierson, EW.com , 19 Apr. 2022",
"In the past, Queen Charlotte hired Eloise to sleuth for Lady Whistledown leads and even accused her of being the gossip columnist in season 2. \u2014 Samantha Olson, Seventeen , 1 Apr. 2022",
"Players were given 20 different repair orders and asked to sleuth out what specific part was causing the problem, fix it, and then test the fix on the road. \u2014 Michael Thomsen, Wired , 13 Nov. 2021",
"Sometimes these creators sleuth to identify racists and people spreading disinformation about topics like the Covid vaccines. \u2014 NBC News , 8 Oct. 2021",
"In other words, the challenge was on to sleuth out magical realms. \u2014 Wendy Goodman, Curbed , 9 Mar. 2021",
"The easiest way to sleuth out the life cycle of a parasite is to present it with potential hosts, just as Dykman did with the worms in the kelp bass. \u2014 Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic , 16 Feb. 2021",
"Researchers have to sleuth out whether that fish could physically make that sound, either by listening to existing recordings or speculating how the fish\u2019s sonic muscles might produce noise. \u2014 Sabrina Imbler, New York Times , 10 Nov. 2020"
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"short for sleuthhound"
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],
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"adjective",
"adverb"
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": of or relating to slaughter : murderous"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-191226"
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": blackthorn sense 1a"
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"noun"
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"The boot's sole prevents slippage .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"What is memory, if not a fiction?\u2014and the slippage between authenticity and forgery. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022",
"There was some slippage in that last regard, as, just like your priesthood leader warned you about back in your teenage days, a little nibble of icing can lead to devouring the entire cake. \u2014 Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"Time has revealed this project as a prescient piece of video art, and one of the first great portraits of identity slippage in the digital age. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
"LaVine\u2019s loss cast a pall over a day the Bulls were awaiting through months of defensive slippage , but Caruso\u2019s welcome home party couldn\u2019t be contained for long. \u2014 Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com , 13 Mar. 2022",
"Torque distribution could vary between 10 and 100 percent as wheel slippage occurred. \u2014 James Tate, Car and Driver , 8 Apr. 2022",
"And that\u2019s where the White Sox need to stop the slippage . \u2014 Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY , 6 Apr. 2022",
"But the overall metrics are strikingly bad at the moment and the slippage began before those injuries. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 6 Apr. 2022",
"To assure traction on wet surfaces On integrated rubber grip pads into the outsole, which seem to work, as testers didn\u2019t notice the slippage that has affected other On models on rainy days. \u2014 Adam Chase, Outside Online , 13 Aug. 2021"
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"slip entry 1 + -age"
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"1850, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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": a type of dance (as to punk rock) in which leaping dancers collide against each other"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-005615"
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"Sloan":{
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"biographical name ()"
],
"definitions":[
"Alfred P(ritchard), Jr. 1875\u20131966 American industrialist",
"John French 1871\u20131951 American painter"
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"\u02c8sl\u014dn"
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"noun"
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"phrasal verb"
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": to punish (someone) with (a fine, lawsuit, etc.)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-040218"
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"plural noun"
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": a pair of dogs (see dog sense 3b ) or crampons with the attached chain or rope"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-051805"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-061012"
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"intransitive verb"
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"definitions":[
": to scuff the feet",
": smear"
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"\u02c8sla(a)(\u0259)r"
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"origin unknown"
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"noun"
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": drudge",
": a household servant who does general housework"
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"\u2014 Virgil Thomson",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After a bit of a lull, Perini Navi is back with a groundbreaking new sloop . \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 10 June 2022",
"Angell became an avid sportsman in his adopted hometown of Brooklin, Maine, where he could often be found sailing his sloop off the coast. \u2014 Ira Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
"In early 2017, it was loaded onto the sloop -of-war the U.S.S. Constellation, the last U.S. Navy sail-only warship, which was built in 1854 and is now a museum ship in Baltimore. \u2014 Jim Vinoski, Forbes , 15 Apr. 2022",
"Kerry James Marshall overhauled Homer\u2019s parts to make his own Gulf Stream (2003), in which the water is shark-free, the sloop is yar, and four Black figures relax between the boom and a boom box. \u2014 Susan Tallman, The Atlantic , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Who\u2019d have thought an old-fashioned Dutch sloop would inspire such a modern-day trailblazer? \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 21 Jan. 2022",
"Think of it as a go-fast boat that\u2019s as tranquil (and sustainable) as a classic sloop . \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 10 Sep. 2021",
"Andersen pointed to young trailblazers such as Ellen MacArthur, who at age 24 sailed alone around the world in record time, and Tania Aebi, whose father presented the high-schooler with a choice of money for college or a sloop . \u2014 Washington Post , 27 July 2021",
"Nauta Design has just unveiled a showstopping custom sloop that could be a serious regatta contender. \u2014 Rachel Cormack, Robb Report , 31 Mar. 2021"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Fowler said that other royals profited directly from the slave trade , including Queen Anne, who ruled from 1702 to 1714. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022",
"The Holocaust, the Civil War, the Founding, the slave trade , the discovery of America\u2014these subjects are constantly being litigated on social media and cable TV, in school boards and state legislatures. \u2014 Adam Kirsch, WSJ , 11 Feb. 2022",
"The latest work by choreographer/scholar Nailah Randall-Bellinger invites audiences into a dialogue about the African diaspora, exploring the trans-Atlantic slave trade , emancipation, and the evolving identities of women. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 11 Nov. 2021",
"The Town of Jamestown has created a scholarship fund and will fly the Juneteenth flag, to recognize and begin to atone for its role in the slave trade . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 June 2022",
"Back in Providence, three of the four Brown brothers, having lost much of their investment, refrained from further involvement in the slave trade . \u2014 Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books , 8 June 2022",
"In 2018, Charleston\u2019s City Council voted to formally denounce slavery and apologize for the city\u2019s role in the slave trade . \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 June 2022",
"In 2006, Brown released a report that detailed its relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade . \u2014 Washington Post , 7 May 2022",
"As Providence gears up to provide reparations to Black residents for centuries of injustices, city officials are looking beyond the city\u2019s leading role in the Colonial transatlantic slave trade . \u2014 Philip Marcelo, Chicago Tribune , 6 May 2022"
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"Verb",
"slalomed through the crowd with the ease of an Olympic skier",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The combined is one run each of both downhill and slalom . \u2014 Nancy Armour, USA TODAY , 15 Feb. 2022",
"And, initially, at least, the contest aped skiing, with downhill and slalom events. \u2014 Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The four-door circles the banked bowl \u2013 pulling a face-twisting 1.27 G\u2019s of lateral force \u2013 before launching out the other side towards the slalom . \u2014 Michael Harley, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Notre Dame Prep's Sydney Schulte won the slalom (66.95) and Petoskey's Marley Spence took down the giant slalom (51.65). \u2014 Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press , 1 Mar. 2022",
"This could be the day, however, with the women's slalom on tap. \u2014 USA TODAY , 9 Feb. 2022",
"With alpine skiing, athletes will compete in five events, including downhill, super-G, super combined, giant slalom, and slalom . \u2014 Johanna Gretschel, SELF , 4 Feb. 2022",
"The two-time Olympic Gold medalist is set to compete in five events this Games \u2014 the slalom , giant slalom, super-G, downhill and alpine \u2014 and is expected to lead the pack in most of those. \u2014 Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Then, four minutes later, Gavi went on a slalom run down the right flank that Dembele would be proud of and set Pedri up for his third goal in five games as the Catalans took the lead. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"West's Caleb Lewandowski won boys slalom individual title with a time of 1 minute, 0.18 seconds over his two runs, just 13 tenths of a second had of Rochester Adams' Nathan Dehart. \u2014 Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press , 1 Mar. 2022",
"As the skiers slalom and snowboarders snowcross, the Chinese government is likely to be working hard behind the scenes on a perhaps even trickier feat: controlling the weather. \u2014 Washington Post , 24 Jan. 2022",
"How could anyone judge a soul bold enough to slalom through England\u2019s entire defense in the 1986 World Cup quarterfinals? \u2014 Dylan Hern\u00e1ndez Columnist, Los Angeles Times , 25 Nov. 2020",
"In this season, Remy challenges a self-parking Tesla Model X to a parallel-park-off in a Fiat 500, Cam slaloms a golf cart through a course made of shopping carts, and all of the kids get to use the simulators at the LA auto show. \u2014 Brett Berk, Car and Driver , 17 Apr. 2020",
"Rafael Le\u00e3o slalomed past several defenders to pull one back in style for Milan\u2019s only real highlight. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 Sep. 2019",
"Its highlight is an enormous parade of skiers and boarders decked out in Pride flags and costumes, slaloming down the mountain, and then marching through Whistler Village. \u2014 Miles Griffis, Outside Online , 27 Nov. 2019",
"On weekends, many young men drive their cars out to the desert to go off-roading, slaloming down the sides of sand dunes as spectators watch. \u2014 Wired , 26 Nov. 2019",
"Henrique then scored late in the second after taking the puck from Tomas Hertl and slaloming to the crease to roof a backhand. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 Oct. 2019"
],
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"Norwegian slal\u00e5m , literally, sloping track":"Noun"
},
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"1921, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1932, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105859"
}
}
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