slouch
verb (used without object)
to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
sloucher
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a word derived from
slouch.
Example Sentences
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Because he fidgets with the drawstrings of his hoodies, and because he used to be a skater, one might assume that he is a sloucher.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
Putin is, in fact, an occasional sloucher, though not a habitual one.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2013
Considering next the ass: “This wizard beast,” said he, “is nimble and without doubt no sloucher; I can either ride or sell him.”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
Here and there was a perennial type, the pale actor with soft hat and blue-black chin, the ragged sloucher from park to park.
From The Shadow of the Rope by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
The sloucher took up his quart, and said that he saw "no call" to hurry.
From Wood Magic A Fable by Richard Jefferies
