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slink away

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slink away
to creep or slither away furtively. The fox slunk away, leaving the henhouse as quietly as such a thing is possible. I hope that the skunk will slink away as quietly as it came.
See also: away, slink


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The only bad news about the treatment handed out to the members of Bristol's Hanham Athletic FC is that they were allowed to slink away in their thongs and thigh-high outfits without further charge.
I await the 2007-8 figures with relish and I certainly don't think we should slink away from the 2008-9 ones in disgrace.
They do it in less obvious places too, of course, where they can slink away unnoticed, but somehow it seems worse at supermarkets because it is so public that it demonstrates such an incredibly blatant disregard for other people.
 
 
 
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